Some policemen attached to Maroko police station,
Lagos
State, have been accused of killing a 24-year old man,
Aondona Tavershima and buried him in a shallow grave
at
Lekki beach.
Five of the suspected policemen are now currently in
police
detention. The victim, a motorcycle operator, was
alleged to
have refused to stop when he was accosted by the
policemen who were said to be on patrol at about 11am
on
the fateful day.
“On realizing that he was dead, the policemen picked his
corpse and put it behind their patrol vehicle, a Toyota
Hilux
Van, and covered it with tyres. They drove to the beach
and
buried him. We were the ones who alerted the family
that
their brother had been killed and buried,” the eyewitness
disclosed.
Narrating the incident to Sunday Sun on phone,
Aondona’s
elder sister, Linda, said she got to know about the
incident
on Thursday, November 11, 2014. “I knew that he left
for
Lekki with his friend and when he did not come back, I
assumed that he had gone to spend time with his
friends.
When I was told that my brother was killed, my people
visited the scene and saw the grave. We later
discovered that
the policemen were from Maroko police station and we
went
to lodge a complaint. They promised to invite SCID
Panti to
exhume the body, as it was not their job. At night, they
came
and exhumed the body and kept it in a mortuary. The
DPO
later called me and requested that they would pay us
N10
million to end the matter. They said we should go home
and
think about it and get back to them,” Linda alleged.
Similarly, an in-law to the deceased, Dominic David,
claimed
that he was told that policemen were trying to arrest
Aondona and he refused to stop. “They opened fire on
him
and shot him.
And even when he fell down, they still continued to
shoot.
Initially, they wanted to abandon the corpse, but the
owner
of the house near where he was killed insisted that they
must carry the corpse away.”
“They took his body to Lekki beach and buried him in a
grave and covered the burial site with leaves and old
carton.
Unfortunately, some of the people who witnessed the
crime
knew us very well and alerted us. They promised that
Panti
was going to investigate the matter but up till date, they
have not done anything about it.”
The lawyer representing the family, Barrister Mindia
Chibok,
said the family intends to legally seek redress on the
injustice meted out to the victim. We expect that by
now the
matter should have been transferred to an appropriate
authority and not the same police station where the
crime
was committed. We hope that the police authority will
order
a thorough investigation and ensure that the suspects,
including those who are currently at large be arrested
and
made to face the wrath of the law.
I gathered that six of the suspects are currently at large
while five others are in police custody.
Confirming the incident, Lagos Police command
spokesman,
DSP Kenneth Nwosu, said that as soon as the
Commissioner
of Police for Lagos State got wind of the incident, he
ordered
an immediate arrest of the suspected policemen who
were
alleged to have participated in the killing.
“Five policemen are currently being detained, while State
Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, has since
commenced an investigation. If found guilty, the officers
will
be made to face the wrath of the law,” Nwosu said.

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