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A private radio station in Ado Ekiti, Our
Peoples FM 104.1, believed to be owned by
a former governor of Ekiti State, Mr
Ayodele Fayose, was sealed off on
Thursday by the state government for non-
compliance with regulations.
Officials of state Ministry of Lands, Housing
and Urban Development and policemen
from the Counter Terrorism Unit moved to
the radio station and ordered the workers
out after pasting the notice of closure on
the building.
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of
Lands, Mr Ademiloye Fasiku, said, “We are
here basically to enforce compliance with
urban development plan of government. We
have given them notices but they never
responded. We asked them to submit their
approved plan for clearance but nothing was
done.
Fasiku claimed four letters were written to
the station on the need to comply with
regulations, saying all the pleas were
rebuffed.
Fasiku, who noted that there were
discrepancies in the approved purpose for
the building and mast, said, “Following
these discrepancies, a penalty charge of
N985,000 was recommended but was not
paid.”
But the General Manager of the station, Mr
Layi Oyawa, who said he did not receive
any letter from the ministry, said, “The only
letter I got was from the Signage and
Advertisement Agency. Why is this coming at
this time? However, we are going to address
it the legal way.”
Oyawa condemned the manner the station
was closed down, describing it as brutish.
He said, “The police that the staff of the
ministry brought slapped me. They assaulted
me and tore my suit; this is uncalled for.
They said they wrote notices to us, who did
they address them to? From whom did the
letter emanate?”
Fayose, in his reaction to the sealing off of
the radio station, described it as a prelude
to alleged rigging the APC intended to
perpetrate on Saturday and March 2.
The former governor, in a statement by his
media aide, Lere Olayinka, said, “From
information made available to the public by
the radio station, the government requested
for payment of N175 million as Signage Fee,
which for all intent and purposes, was
ridiculous.
“It is sad that Fayemi chose to take laws
into his hands by ordering policemen
attached to him to invade a private
business premises and close it down
without order of any court.”
Source:
www.tori.ng/news/116416/ekiti-
govt-shuts-down-radio-station-allegedly-
owne.html