Senator Olamilekan Adeola, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, APC, Ogun West, has raised concerns that his senior aide, Adeniyi Oluwatosin Sanni, was robbed and killed by soldiers of the Nigeria Army operating at checkpoints around the Ikeja axis of Lagos State on August 5, 2023.
In a statement personally issued by Senator Adeola, he highlighted the circumstances surrounding the tragic incident.
“Recall that the bereaved senator had earlier stated that information available to him on the circumstances indicates 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,” he said.
”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 Toyota Bus Stop area of Oshodi, close to a military barrack.
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“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.”
Senator Adeola has called on Major General Taoreed Lagbaja, the Chief of Army Staff, to take immediate action in identifying and bringing the culprits to justice.
He stressed the urgency of investigating this incident, as a pattern of similar killings and armed robberies involving soldiers at late-night checkpoints around Ikeja has emerged.
“Till date, the black Toyota Camry of Mr. Sanni, his phones and other valuables are yet to be recovered.”