Alleged perjury: Ogun okada riders want CAC to take action or be held culpable
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has been urged to speak out on the alleged perjury committed by a faction of the Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association of Nigeria (ACOMORAN) in Ogun State to avoid been accused of culpability in the matter.
Daily Trust checks revealed that the faction led by Shamsudeen Apelogun in the alleged criminal act had in connivance with some trustees of the union claimed that the original certificate of the union was missing and another member of trustees subsequently swore to an affidavit to allegedly deceived the commission to change the name of the union and amend the constitution, which now provide for a five year tenure for its executives.
The new name of the union, according to findings, which included the sign post at the state headquarters, Abeokuta, is now Amalgamated Commercial Tricycle Owners and Motorcycle Owners, Repairers and Riders Association of Nigeria but, curiously with the same acronym “ACOMORAN” .
Addressing a news conference at the weekend in Abeokuta, another faction of the group, alleged that the purported missing original certificate issued in 1999, had been tendered at the commission and was confirmed as original copy on December 6, 2017.
The faction, led by Alhaji Lateef Yekini told newsmen that the Apelogun-led Ogun State “ACOMORAN” with some members of the board of trustees allegedly connived with some top members of the commission to adopt the amendment in the constitution.
“If not so, we are curious that since December 6, the commission is yet to come out to the public on this perjury committed by these desperate union leaders,” Yekini said.
In a letter to the state governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, counsel to Yekini’s faction, Abdulhamid Muhammed, further shed light on the perjury indictment, even as he urged the governor to immediately intervene by looking into the cries of his client.
According to the letter dated December 8, 2017, the Managing Partner of Hammart and Co. from Tafida Chambers, claimed that “to the amazement of CAC, it was our client that are with the original certificate while the appellants’ faction misled the CAC that the original certificate got missing and they consequently issued the appellants’ faction with another certificate in the name of the same association.”
Yekini said the news conference became necessary to clear the air, adding that since the CAC failed to act. By the old constitution, the threeyear tenure of Apelogun ended on Friday, December 29 and “by the understanding we reached, my faction is supposed to take over in Ogun State and that was why we are saying that by today, January 1, 2018, we are starting operations too. We had long been deprived of livelihood.”