How a 21-year-old carpenter was tortured to death in Ogun

How a 21-year-old carpenter was tortured
to death in Ogun 

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An Assistant Superintendent of Police, Salawu
Kazeem, has been arrested and detained by the
Lagos State Police Command for allegedly torturing a
21-year-old carpenter, Ganiyu Akinyemi, to death in
the Aboru area of Lagos State.
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Kazeem and two accomplices, identified only as
Yusuf and other unknown, were arrested on
Tuesday.Ganiyu, who hailed from Aiyetoro in the
Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State,
was staying with his parents in the area.
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Punch newspaper reports that it happened on
Monday at about 5pm, the ASP and four men had
come to the deceased’s apartment on Victor Fagbemi
Street, Aboru.
They had reportedly accused the carpenter of
stealing three T-shirts in a house where he went to
work the previous week.
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The house, where Ganiyu allegedly stole the shirts,
was also where the ASP lived.It was gathered that
the ASP arrested Ganiyu and told his family that he
would detain him at the nearest police station.
When the family members went to the Oke Odo
Police Division around 7pm, the 21-year-old was not
found there, while no report had been made in the
station.The family members were called on the
telephone around 3am on Tuesday that he was
admitted at the Oke Odo General Hospital.
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He had reportedly sustained injuries on the knees,
hands and forehead.
When the family members got to the hospital, they
were said to have been met by one of the men who
followed the ASP to the house. They were also said
to have been told by a doctor that Ganiyu was dead.
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The matter was thereafter reported to the Oke Odo
Police Division on Tuesday and the ASP and two of
the men were arrested, while two others escaped.
Our correspondent learnt that the ASP reportedly
begged the victim’s family at the police station,
saying Ganiyu’s death was a mistake.
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Speaking with PUNCH Metro, Ganiyu’s father, Alhaji
Akinyemi Ibrahim, who is also the chairman of the
community development association, said he
released his son to the men because he saw the
ASP’s identity card and trusted that his son was being
taken to a police station.
Ibrahim added that he was shocked to realise that
Ganiyu was taken to the complainant’s house, where
the ASP also stayed, and was tortured till he became
unconscious.
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He said,
“On that Monday, at about 5pm, I had just
returned from a wedding in Kano State and I was very tired. Five men came to the house
and asked for Ganiyu. When he came out, they
started threatening him.
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“I asked them to identify themselves, and the
ASP showed me his ID card, and said Ganiyu
stole some T-shirts when he came to fix
kitchen cabinets in his house. He added that
he had come to arrest him.
“I did not have any problem with that. I felt
secured that it was a police officer who came
to take him away, and he had said he would be
taking him to the nearest police station, which
was Oke Odo division. I told them that I would
take a shower, rest a little and meet them at
the station.“But to my surprise, around 7pm
when I wanted to go, the phone number that
the ASP and his men gave us was switched off.
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I sent one of my sons to check them at the
police station.“The boy, however, rushed back
to say Ganiyu was not taken to any station.“It
was around 3am on the following day that we
got a call that Ganiyu was hospitalised and was
in a critical condition at the Oke Odo General
Hospital.“When the hospital officials realised
that his knees, hands and forehead had been
badly injured, they insisted that they would
only attend to him when they saw a family
member; that was when the ASP and his men
were forced to call us on the telephone.”
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Ganiyu’s elder sister, Saidat Ibrahim, said,
“Ganiyu had told us that the men gave him the
T-shirts after he finished working in the house.
But when they wanted to frame him up, they
said he stole the shirts.”
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We just hope justice will prevail. Rest in Peace Bro