The lawmaker representing Ogun West, Senator Solomon Adeola, has alleged that soldiers of the Nigerian Army operating at checkpoints in the Ikeja axis of Lagos State were responsible for the death of his senior aide, Adeniyi Sanni.
Sanni was reportedly killed in the early hours of Saturday, August 5, 2023.
It would be recalled that the bereaved Senator, who is also the Chairman of Senate Committee on Appropriations, had earlier stated that information available to him on the circumstances indicated that Mr. Sanni was stopped at a checking point around Ojodu- Berger Area of Lagos on his way to his home at Isheri by ‘security agents’ who asked him to provide the documents of the car he was driving, which he did through a call to his wife who sent all the documents to his phone WhatsApp.
It was gathered that the wife called a while later and the late Mr. Sanni told him that soldiers are still checking the vehicle’s paper. That was the last she heard from her husband and the body of Mr. Sanni, ridden with bullets, was later discovered at the Toyota Bus Stop area of Oshodi, close to a military barrack.
While giving an update on the incident in a statement signed by the Senator on Monday, he said, “In an update about the investigation of the murder and armed robbery by the Nigerian Police Force, through a statement issued in Abuja, Senator Adeola stated that he is of the firm believe, based on available facts at the disposal of the Police, that his aide was killed by a syndicate of soldiers operating under the newly deployed Commander of 9 Brigade, Ikeja Cantonment of the Nigeria Army, Brigadier General Nsikan John Edet, through mounting of checkpoints and robbing of lone occupants of cars.”
According to him, top Police sources familiar with the investigation informed him that a similar brutal killing and armed robbery occurred around the same Ojodu- Berger late Thursday night of August 17, 2023, resulting in the killing of another Nigerian whose body was discovered around Iyana-Ipaja after he was taken away by soldiers from the checkpoint.
Unknown to the soldiers, the occupant of the car they killed and took away his car was the second car in a convoy of two heading toward the same destination.
He said the first car passed the soldier’s checkpoint, but the second car was stopped to check his vehicle’s papers.
On noticing the absence of the second car after a while, the occupant of the first car (name withheld) placed a call to his colleague in the second car, who informed him that he was being taken to Iyana Ipaja by the soldiers at the checkpoint. That was the last he heard from him, and his dead body was later discovered dumped on the road, just like Mr Sanni.
He added that the survivor in the first car reported the case to the Police, and a pattern of armed robbery and killing in the area involving men in Army uniforms was established.
Therefore, he called on the Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, to direct the fishing out of the killers of his aide for further investigation, prosecution, and justice for the deceased.
He further noted that to date, the black Toyota Camry of Mr. Sanni, his phones, and other valuables are yet to be recovered.
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