3 years after court victory, victim of police assault awaits compensation

Three years after the Court of Appeal, Ibadan Division, upheld a N20 million judgment against the Nigeria Police for aggravated assault by its officials against Adebayo Olaide, the 37 years old victim of brutality, who has become blind due to the assault, is still waiting for his compensation.

Yet, in a twist of fate, the police officers who descended on him with sticks and the butts of their guns around Alagbayun, near Odo Oba in Ogo Oluwa Local Government Area of Oyo State in 2009, have been promoted while their victim, Adebayo, has had to withdraw from the College of Education, Ila Oragun, where he was a 300 level student when the incident happened.
“I won’t lie to you, today I am a beggar”, he told our reporter during the week in Ilorin, Kwara state. “I go from one place to the other to get something to survive”, he said, lamenting that he spent one week begging to gather the N1,500 needed to get his family of four to Ilorin, from Ogbomosho when told some newsmen were interested in his story. His Pastor in Ogbomosho as well as his mother-in law, he noted, had been the major help for his survival. “When my children are sick, it is the Pastor and my mother-in-law that helps us”.https://newtelegraphonline.com/3-years-court-victory-victim-police-assault-awaits-compensation/