Senator Solomon Adeola (APC Ogun West) has alleged that soldiers of the Nigeria Army operating checkpoints around Ikeja axis of Lagos state were responsible for the killing of his senior aide, Mr. Adeniyi Oluwatosin Sanni, in the early hours of Saturday August 5, 2023.
Senator Adeola made the allegation in a personally signed statement made available to journalists in Abuja Monday.
The statement reads in part: “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’s WhatsApp.
“It was gathered that the wife called a while later and the late Mr. Sanni told him soldiers are still checking the vehicle papers. 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.”
Senator Adeola stated further 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.
He said top police sources familiar with the investigation informed him that a similar brutal killing and armed robbery occurred around the same Ojodu- Berger late Thursday night of August 17, 2023.