Friday, May 20, 2016

‘Police begged me to keep mum on Gabriel’s death’

Mrs. Olatundun Masaku, a visitor to the MAN Centre Police Division where one Gabriel Faleye, died, says she saw his corpse inside the cell, but she was begged not to raise the alarm.

Olatundun said she saw the corpse when she went to check her son, Ibrahim Masaku, who was arrested along with the deceased around 3am on Monday outside Royale – a nightclub on Oba Akran Road in Ikeja.
 This is just as Gabriel’s mother, Mrs. Iqrat Faleye, debunked the police’s robbery allegation against her son, saying the report was a  frame-up.
PUNCH Metro had reported on Wednesday that 24-year-old Gabriel and his friends had gone to the club on Sunday when a fight broke out between them and another group of clubbers.
He was said to have left the club and was heading for his residence on Obafemi Awolowo Way  when one of the aggrieved clubbers entered his car and deliberately ran into him.
It was reported that the policemen, who stormed the area afterwards, whisked Gabriel and Ibrahim to the station despite entreaties that he should be taken to a hospital for treatment. He allegedly died in custody around 5am.
The state police command had  said Gabriel died in a hospital, where he was rushed to.
http://www.punchng.com/police-begged-me-to-keep-mum-on-gabriels-death/

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