Association of Table Water Producers, Ekiti State Chapter (ATWAP) allegedly hired some thugs to attack staffs of Dele Pure Water Company located at the Ekute Quarters, Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday morning while carrying out their lawful duty.
According to the driver of the truck with registration number KAA 317 XA who is a staff of Dele Pure Water, Babatunde Kareem, he narrated it happened,
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“the incident happened at about 11:00 am in the morning. When we got to one of the customer’s place to supply water along the Erio Ekiti road; one agent and a man suspected to be a popular thug at Aramoko Ekiti, Seyi Ademiluyi accosted me and asked me to follow him to the Police Station.”
“Without arguing with the ATWAP agent, I followed him to the Police Station as he advised.”
The driver of the vehicle, Mr. Kareem revealed that Seyi Ademiluyi (a.k.a. Sosomoney) is a staff of Atom Pure Water located in Aramoko Ekiti owned by one Chief Mrs. Ademiluyi (the Omo Olori Obinrin of Aramoko Ekiti from the Ademiluyi family).
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The driver, Mr. Kareem said Seyi Ademiluyi then requested and demanded to join the Dele Pure Water Company vehicle but that he declined.
“In an attempt for Seyi Ademiluyi (a.k.a. Sosomoney) to forcefully join the Dele Pure Water Company vehicle to the Aramoko Ekiti Police Station, he jumped at the back of the Diana truck 150 while in motion.”
After a few meters away, one ATWAP agent forced his way from the open back roof of the truck vehicle to harass me on the driver’s seat on my way to the Police Station and tried to drag me out.
This resulted into a very serious argument and fisticuffs which led to the vehicle ran into a ditch by the road side”.
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An eyewithness who would not want his name mentioned for security reasons said the agent, Seyi Ademiluyi a.k.a. Sosomoney assulted the driver, Babatunde Kareem and dragged him on the floor without heeding the plea of the people at the scene of the incident.
The driver who is an HND graduate sustained various degrees of injuries.
Investigations gathered at the scene of the incident equally revealed that the said agent and thugs of ATWAP at Aramoko Ekiti are well known to be notorious in the town.
It was also gathered that the owner of Atom Pure Water Company located along Ijero Ekiti road, one Chief Mrs. Ademiluyi (the Omo Olori Obinrin of Aramoko Ekiti from the Ademiluyi family) is very well known for harrassing, frustrating, assaulting and embarrassing other Pure Water Companies that comes to Aramoko Ekiti to sell and supply their products.
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Giving her own account, the owner and the CEO of Dele Pure Water Company located at Ekute Quarters in Ado Ekiti, one Mrs. Ronke Akin Ibimilua lamented and complained bitterly about her previous nasty experiences she encountered in the cause of doing her legitimate Water business in Ekiti State.
Mrs. Ibimilua revealed how she had been maltreated and cheated in the past by the other Pure Water Companies and the Association in charge of the Pure Water business in Ekiti State because of jealousy and envy.
Speaking further, Mrs. Ronke Akin Ibimilua, the CEO of Dele Pure Water Company explained how her staffs had been attacked during the cause of selling Water and making supplies across the State by the agents of the Association at Ijesa-Isu Ekiti in Ikole Ekiti and Igogo Ekiti in Ijero Ekiti Local Government.
“Vehicles and products worth over hundred thousand destroyed at my own expense and at the disadvantage of my business thereby resulting into heavy loss.”
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“I recalled how vehicles supplying water for her at Ijesa-Isu Ekiti and Ilogbo Ekiti were hijacked on the road some years back by the agents of the Association of Table Water Producers (ATWAP) in Ekiti State.”
She went further that her products were vandalised, tyres deflated, windscreen broken, products damaged, her staffs beating up and the monies made from water sales proceeds forcefully taking away from them all at her own expense.
She revealed, that with her current experience at Aramoko Ekiti, that time has come for her to seek redress at the Court of Law to address the current issue at hand, so as to serve as deterrent to others who might still be nursing such evil against her and her business across the State.
Our reporter on visiting the production office of the Atom Pure Water located along the Ijero Ekiti road at Aramoko Ekiti discovered that it was under lock and key.
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None of their staffs were around possibly for fear of being arrested by the Police.
As at the time of filing this report, the agent of the association, Seyi Ademiluyi who carried out the dastardly acts is already in the police custody at the Divisional Police Headquarters at Aramoko Ekiti.
All other parties to the incident have made their statements at the Aramoko Ekiti Divisional Police Station.
The case will be charged to court at the instance of the owner of Dele Pure Water whose vehicle and company staffs were attacked and vehicle damaged.
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