SENATOR ADEOLA INSISTS THAT SOLDIERS ROBBED, KILLED HIS AIDE

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The chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Mr. Solomon Adeola, has revealed that on Saturday, August 5, 2023, soldiers manning checkpoints in the Lagos state neighborhood of Ikeja robbed and killed his assistant, Adeniyi Oluwatosin Sanni.

He made the startling disclosure in a statement that he signed and provided to news reporters in Abuja.

Remember how Adeola claimed to have information about Sanni being stopped by “security agents” at a checkpoint outside the Ojodu-Berger neighborhood of Lagos on his route to his house in Isheri after the sad incident?

The deceased was asked to give the paperwork for the vehicle he was driving, which he accomplished by calling his wife, who then transferred all of the paperwork to his phone via WhatsApp message.

The senator added that the deceased husband had informed him that soldiers were still inspecting the vehicle’s details when his wife had subsequently called.

That was their final exchange before she learned that Sanni’s corpse had been found shot to death in the Toyota Bus Stop neighborhood of Oshodi, adjacent to a military barracks.

Adeola said: “I am of the firm belief, based on available facts at the disposal of the Police that my 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.

“Top police sources familiar with the investigation informed me 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 towards the same destination. The first car passed the soldiers 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.

“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 uniform was established.”

To promote the inquiry, the prosecution, and the deceased’s justice, Adeola instead pleaded with the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Taoreed Lagbaja, to order the smoking out of the murders of his assistant.

He claimed that a pattern of homicides and armed robberies against soldiers stationing checkpoints late at night around Ikeja had been established, with similar unreported incidents occurring recently near Ikeja.

The Nigerian Army, he continued, cannot be considered to be harboring or tolerating criminals who are robbing and killing defenseless citizens of Nigeria.

“Till date, the black Toyota Camry of Mr. Sanni, his phones, and other valuables are yet to be recovered.”