Senator Olamilekan Adeola, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, has claimed that suspected uniform men, working at checkpoints near the Ikeja axis of Lagos State robbed and killed his senior aide, Adeniyi Oluwatosin Sanni, in the early hours of Saturday, August 5, 2023.
In a statement issued on Monday, August 21, the Ogun Senator urged the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Taoreed Lagbaja, to direct the capture of his aide’s killers for further investigation, prosecution, and justice for the deceased, citing a “pattern of killings and armed robbery has been established against uniform men mounting late night checkpoints around Ikeja with similar unreported incidences in recent times.”
The statement read; “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.
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“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.
“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.
“Till date, the black Toyota Camry of Mr. Sanni, his phones and other valuables are yet to be recovered.”