Ten years after the administration of late former governor Abiola Ajimobi arrested and jailed notorious transport union leader, Mukaila Lamidi, popularly called Auxiliary, officials of the Department of State Services (DSS) has again arrested him.
A top government official who craved anonymity revealed that Auxilliary, the displaced head of the Oyo State Park Management System (PMS) was arrested by operatives of the secret police Tuesday afternoon.
It would be recalled that Auxilliary, who was at a point dreaded in Ibadan, the state’s capital, had been arrested by the Ajimobi administration around the third week of May, 2014.
He was finally jailed in 2016 and released towards the tail end of the government in 2018.
The ousted transport union leader fell out with the current administration of Governor Seyi Makinde over conflict with the officials of the state chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in May, 2023.