Agboola, who claimed to be a loyalist of the late factional leader of the union, Alhaji Lateef Salako (a.k.a Eleweomo), at the time of the incident, gave the revelation while giving evidence before the Justice Olagoke Ige-led judicial commission of enquiry probing the union crisis on Thursday in Ibadan, the state capital.
He alleged that he and some other members of the union were drafted to the scene on the orders of Salako to attack some lawmakers, who they were told were planning to remove the then Speaker, Mr. Maroof Atilola.
He recalled that he and his colleagues were first assembled at a filling station on Iwo Road before they were moved to the premises of the assembly.
He said, “We were all standing in front of the assembly until Salako sighted some of the anti-speaker lawmakers arriving at the premises.
“He (Salako) then signalled 10 of us to follow him upstairs. It was there that we beat up one of the anti-Speaker lawmakers.
“It was in that process that one lawmaker jumped down from the window and broke his leg.
“We were given N5,000 each for that operation.”
Agboola said he decided to leave Salako’s camp now being led by Mr. Mukaila Lamidi (a.k.a Auxiliary)to join the camp of Alhaji Lateef Akinsola (a.k.a Tokyo) because Lamidi killed his (Agboola’s) close friend and union member identified simply as “Buno.”
“I left Salako’s camp for two reasons. One of them is that Lamidi killed my close friend, “Bruno.” The other reason is that Akinsola’s faction has legal backing,” he said.
When asked why he did not report to the police when he was sure that Lamidi was responsible for his friend’s death, he said, “Policemen couldn’t have arrested him because he was working for former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala. There was a time he was arrested based on a petition and he was released within two hours.”
He also indicted a politician, whom he identified as Bisi Olopoeniyan, alleging that he was the one giving the necessary backing to Salako and Lamidi to carry out their nefarious activities.
He said the claim that two night guards were killed in Salako’s house which led to the arrest of Akinsola was orchestrated by Olopoeniyan.
“Nobody was killed in that house. It was Lamidi that entered a room and shot. The blood you saw was not human blood; it was a mixture of the blood of a goat and that of a duck. I know what I am saying,” he added.
He said the only way peace could return to the union was to reinstate Akinsola as the chairman according to the order of the National Industrial Court, Abuja.
Following his revelations, counsel to the Police, Mr. E.F. Ijalana, appealed to the commission to allow access to the witness because his statement would assist the command in many of the cases that are still under investigation.
The commission’s chairman urged Agbool to help the police when the need arises but ruled that police request to the witness should always be routed through the secretary of the Akinsola’s faction of the union, Mr. Lekan Aleshinloye.
Another witness, Mr. Ayoola Omoseebi, accused the state police command of complicity in the prolonged crisis.
Omoseebi alleged that police cover was given to those who carried out the dawn attack on the union’s secretariat in Academy/Olomi area of the state capital last year, saying that they were led by an Armoured Personnel Carrier.
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