Olaitan oyerinde biography of martin

Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde was born

This sad development came barely one week after the seeming orchestrated attack on the convoy of Comrade Governor Adams Oshiomhole that also sadly claimed the lives of three 3 Journalists and left several others injured. May their souls rest in eternal peace. The cowardly murder of Comrade Olaitan was a great loss to the administration of Comrade Governor Adams Oshiomhole and the good people of Edo State he diligently served for almost four 4 years.

He was actually on leave of absence with Edo State government. Olaitan, as he was popularly called was a tested Comrade. I bear testimony to his hard work, dedication and intellectual contribution to the growth and development of the Congress. At 44, Olaitan was one patriotic life too brutally cut short!. We have inadvertently dignified unauthorised killings and reduced human lives and relations to mere statistics.

With increasing cases of unresolved murder cases and mass killings in the land are we saying Nigerians should give up on life expectancy and be contended with death expectancy? Posthumous testimonials and tributes give us a complete picture of a patriot, a revolutionary, a tested unionist, an organizer, a loyal worker, a mentor and a proud father of three and husband.

We are all scandalously embarrassed and diminished that we were callously deprived of our own without an answer as to who carried out this dastardly act. We only take consolation with the documented appreciated deeds of Olaitan which damned the worse deeds of his killers. Most testimonials singled out Comrade Olaitain as a global citizen.

He schooled in Lagos and worked in Abuja and with union work almost all parts of Nigeria and indeed the world. As a student activist, he had known all parts of the country well before he graduated. Serving the nation through the compulsory NYSC was just an official legitimization of his earned national outlook. His acceptance of an appointment as a Principal Private Secretary of the governor of Edo State and his posthumous celebration as a hero of that great state; the Heart beat of the Nation and indeed Nigeria as a whole further attested to his pan Nigerian vision.