We Begged the Soldiers To Release My Sick Son, But They Refused And Beat Him Up Forced Him To Eat His Vomit- Man Narrates

The deceased, with his friends, was said to have engaged in a squabble with some soldiers in mufti after the latter challenged them for not using belts to hold their trousers.
A young man identified as Yinka Adekunle has died after being beaten by soldiers of the Nigerian Army in Osun State.

The deceased, with his friends, was said to have engaged in a squabble with some soldiers in mufti after the latter challenged them for not using belts to hold their trousers.

This enraged Adekunle, also known as Ojeere, who queried the authority under which the soldiers were challenging them. Meanwhile, the soldiers never identified themselves as officers and being in the same age group, the issue resulted in a fight.

A sister of one of the affected men told SaharaReporters that when the soldiers showed their real identities, they arrested her brother and took him to the Ibodi barracks in Ilesha where they tortured him.

She said when she visited the barracks, the soldiers requested payment of N500,000, as bail money for her brother, saying a soldier was injured in the scuffle. But it was later brought down to N300,000. However, she was unable to provide the money which made her approach Ojeere, now deceased, to contribute to the N100,000 she was about to gather. Ojeere volunteered N40,000 and the duo subsequently moved to the barracks to plead with the soldiers.

But instead, Ojeere was recognised by the soldiers as one of the civilians involved in the scuffle. He was thereafter apprehended and allegedly subjected to inhumane treatment while there, which later resulted in his death.

She, however, alleged that the soldiers are trying to cover up the case as they have decided to bribe the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of a police station to divert the course of justice — a secret she was privy to because the soldiers communicated in Hausa — a language they never thought she understood.

She narrated, “I received a call that my brother was at the barracks so I quickly stepped out and moved to the place, they brought him out and I probed to know what happened so he explained to me.

“They said they wouldn't release him and his vehicle if they didn't get Ojeere because there were three people they had a quarrel with on that day. 

“The next day, I got there and asked people around what the problem was, they informed me that my younger brother and his friends ‘sagged' their trousers, that they had no belts on, that the soldiers asked if they were not aware that the trousers could fall to their knees.

“But the soldiers weren't in uniform and moreover, they're all in the same age bracket so my brother and his friends said ‘leave us alone, how is it your business that we're sagging?’It turned into a fight and the soldier said..Tap Here To Keep R£ading For More D£tails... Share