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Family, Residents Accuse Police Of Torturing Youth To Death by breezy900: 7:05pm On Jul 26, 2014 |
The family of a 28-year-old Olayode Adeoye, who died after policemen from the Elere Division, Orile Agege, Lagos raided Ajayi Igbe Street and detained him with two others have accused the police of torturing him to death. Saturday PUNCH learnt that Adeoye and three friends were having a drink at a bar on Ajayi Igbe Street around 11am on Thursday when the police team in a commercial bus came to arrest them. “But we all came out to ask the policemen who numbered about six what the men had done wrong, they gave no answer,” a resident of the street told our correspondent Our correspondent visited the street on Friday, where residents who gathered in groups discussing the incident in anger said they had earlier marched in protest to the Elere Police Division, but were dispersed with gunshots. An elder brother of the deceased, Mr. Tajuden Oyelola, said he had still not been able to digest why the police would beat Adeoye to death. “Those who were there when they were arrested and those who saw him when he was taken to the hospital said he was tortured. I am still in shock. How could any human being do that to another human being?” A resident, Kafilat Oyenusi said the men were arrested in her sister’s bar. Oyenusi said, “These men were having a drink like any other person. We all know them as easy going men on the street. When the police took the men away, they came back about one hour later for my sister. We asked why they came to take my sister away but one of the policemen threatened to shoot us. “We followed them to the station and that was where we learnt that the men had actually admitted to being ‘Yahoo boys’ (a Nigerian term for Internet fraudsters). The boys said the policemen asked them to bail themselves with N500, 000 but they said they could only pay N40, 000. That was when the policemen began to beat them. We later left the place hoping that we would come back in the evening. “But we got a report around 4pm that Olayode had slumped in the cell and was taken to the hospital. By 1am this morning (Friday), he was dead.” The landlord of the deceased said even though he was not aware that the men were Internet fraudsters, he was aware they admitted that much to the police and saw no reason why they should have been tortured. “The three boys were easy going men. The police actually came to search their apartment and took away their laptops,” he said. Another resident told our correspondent that the three men were his friends and that another friend of theirs who went to the police station was also detained. “When he was detained, he told us that they were beaten and Olayode was actually strung up before he collapsed and they asked him to take Olayode to the All Souls Infirmary, where he died.” At the hospital which was few metres from the police station, a doctor said they had nothing to say as it was a police matter. The divisional police officer, Mr. Philip Eze, said the matter was being transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department and he could not comment since he was not the police spokesperson. But a police officer, who was aware of the case at the station said under condition of anonymity that the matter did not happen as the residents alleged. www.breezyworld.tk/forum/showtopic.php?id=603 |
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