The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi, has confirmed the death of a forty-year-old man, Adeola Oyekan, brutalised by soldiers of 174 Battalion in Ikorodu, Lagos.
Oyeyemi assured the deceased’s family that all the perpetrators would be brought to book.
He said, “The Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has directed that the landlady and the son should be arrested.
“Through that, the son will be able to identify the soldiers.”
Oyekan’s case is coming two weeks after some soldiers of the 174 Battalion allegedly brutalised a woman, Ruth Orji. Orji’s case has been taken to court.
Main while, the wife of deceased has demanded immediate arrest of the soldiers.
The woman, Glory Fagbayide, who spoke to our correspondent on the telephone on Saturday, said, “I want justice. The four soldiers that beat my husband, our landlady and his son must all end up in jail. My husband and I just married September 2016.”
Witnesses said Oyekan was rushed to the Pillars Hospital, Ogijo, where he gave up the ghost.
