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By Udoh Iteamha
November 22, 2023
A civil rights activist and philanthropist Odaro Odunamen Maximum has gone into hiding after a failed assassination attempt on his life by unknown gunmen in Benin city Edo state and Lagos state.
Unknown armed men reportedly invaded Odaro home at Eguasco street, Off Sakponba road axis in Benin in a commando style that only suggests a killer squad busting into apartments demanding to see him.
Odaro who had suffered a failed gun attack in Igun Street, off 3rd East Circular Road Benin City and Oghehe Community along Sapele Road Benin City, reports say is now crestfallen and probably afraid owing to serial threats on his life since he got involved in a move to seek justice for a girl child sexually abused by a Federal Legislator.
A source claim that Odaro’s ordeal started after he reported a case of child sex exploitation at the Zone 5 Police Headquarters in Benin demanding justice for the minor, using his capacity as a well meaning Nigerian and a member of the Action Peoples Congress (APC) to draw the state security attention to the plight of the girl child in Nigeria.
He had submitted a proof of evidence in a video contained in a flash pen as recorded by a friend of his Success who had drawn Odaro to the case of sex abuse a call for action push for justice.
Hitherto loved and celebrated by the high and mighty in the society due to his philanthropic gestures, Odaro who is a professionally known cinematographer, film/movie editor/director suddenly fell out of favour as he moved from one challenge to the other as he's daily hunted and hounded by goon of the corrupt elites who are top leaders in different popular occult/cult groups and their collaborators in the Nigeria police, a force that has been made to function against the just and the oppressed due to misplaced value orientation.
Before the night invasion in Lagos Awoyaya axis, Odaro was robbed at night, he was beaten up with bodily injuries and robbed at Ajah, where they took his phone and his small side bag among other items including his identity cards, bank cards, 64gb flash drive, 500gb hard drive and co, prompting his reporting the matter at the Ajah Police station the next day.
It was learnt that the Ajah robbery incident blew the lid off the complicity of the police in Odaro's ordeal with the watching of the flash pen containing the video evidence he had earlier revealed to the police in zone 5 Benin.
"The armed robbers hit him in the face multiple times which led to his having swollen face and a cut on his lips. He had to go report the case at Ajah police station because his identity cards were inside the wallet and he didn’t want these personal effects to be dropped at a crime scene which could further implicate him.
"He also added in his statement that the 64gb flash drive contained a video of the said political leader in edo state engaging in sexual activities with a minor.
The police asked how he came across such video, he told them it was one Success Osemwenkha that told him about it and suggested that he took it to the police to best handle it.
"At about 1:am, some set of unknown gun men came to the compound where he stayed at Awoyaya in lagos since he fled Benin due to the previous assassination attempt on his life. He was lucky that the vigilante in the street got the info that they were looking for A guy called Odaro Odunamen Maximum and that was same name he gave the police at Ajah police station earlier that day", the source hinted accusing the police of being complicit.
"Odaro does not feel safe any where in Nigeria again. They tried to assassinate him in Benin and now in Lagos. His wife and only son aren't safe and as such ran into hiding as a result of frequent attacks on Odaro and his interest by the cult group after he turned down moves to get him initiated, " a source who pleaded anonymity hinted.
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