By Osagie Alonge
- Adewunmi
Last September, the name Adewunmi Oyekanmi became quite popular in the news after the infamous assault incident with BEAT FM exec Olisa Adibua. Eight months later, Adewumni has been fired from the company.
Sources say the management was prompted to sack Adewunmi after he had another misunderstanding with a Naija FM staff – this time over an item which was missing in the office. Adewunmi was accused of stealing another staff’s meal – a pack of Jollof rice.
Sources say, Adewunmi denied the accusation but a CCTV camera which recorded the whole incident proved him wrong.
Insiders at the Beat insist Oyekanmi was not victimised, but only unfortunate to have been the one caught. ‘Management had been trying to stop the issue of stealing. That’s part of the reason they installed CCTV everywhere, and encouraged all staff to report cases of missing items, so these can be tracked using the CCTV recordings. It’s just unfortunate that he’s the one that was caught. If it had been anyone else, the same fate would have befallen that person’
We could not immediately reach Oyekanmi.
NET placed a phone call to the General Manger at BEAT FM Deji Awokoya who told us he would get in touch even before we could ask him any questions on the matter. ‘I’m in a meeting, I’ll call you later please, thanks’, Awokoya said over the phone.
On Thursday, September 8, 2011, Olisa who is the Director of Programmes at Naija FM, Beat FM and Classic FM had assaulted and severely injured Adewunmi, a member of staff at the Lagos radio station
The incident went public and caused a media frenzy, with people calling for Adibua’s head. This was followed by Adewunmi’s statement claiming that Olisa had settled with him. Shortly after BEAT FM released an official statement, confirming and condemning the altercation which was finally followed by Olisa’s official statement saying he was ‘sorry’. Olisa however served an indefinite suspension before resuming back at work weeks later.
12 comments
That’s Hard, i can tell.. I lOve The Beat 99.9FM
Arrangee sack from Olisa.
God is watching U.
Funny lol lol lol
How can you just say arranged sack from Olisa ? cant you read
read what is written in this post . You people will just say what is not and then make more storie4s out of it.
So sad… I still want to believe it’s a setup.. Let the guy move on. God will provide a better job for him… This world is crazy
A senior staff against a junior staff! The latter will definitely be “chicken” out. Its a normal thing in every organisation. Cases like this always end this way. To the station, Olisa is a brand in the media and who is Oyekanmi? Its better for the firm to dance to Olisa’s tune & to safe the company from losing him like the way Cool fm lost both Dan Foster & Olisa years back which has taken many audience away from that station. Dig well into this matter & dont be surprise you will hear another story why he was sacked!
But what kind of f****** makes you steal Rice? Is the Nigerian state of affairs so bad that one steal food?
Dumb***.
It’s so very sad there’s no doubt about it… I’m not condemning anyone but “stealing rice” haba… At most it’s sold for 500 bucks. So we can say he got sacked for 500 bucks… Oga ooooo
Seriously, pack of jollof rice. I’m sure mama put is just somewhere around the corner where he works. This isn’t possible and yo! Media should stop manipulating the people’s mind. Stop telling us what you want us to know and start telling and showing us what really happened. SHOW the CCTV coverage and not these bullocks you yarning.
dis is absurd
Its mostly unconcievable that a man of that age cd stoop for just a plate of rice. I need sm thing else nt this.
I know d guy from lagos state university,where he is a parttime student,he is a very dubious character so I don’t doubt if he was said to av stolen rice.