Some soldiers have been accused of
ordering a medical doctor at gunpoint to abandon his wounded patient, then
stabbed the patient to death at the Kara area of Ogun State.
The Ogun State Police Command, which
stated this, said that the soldiers, who allegedly killed two persons at a
community festival in Isheri Olofin area of the state on Tuesday, were on
illegal duty.
New Telegraph gathered that two
persons were fatally shot during a fight that broke out at the annual Isheri
Day celebration.
Isheri Olofin is a border town
between Lagos and Ogun states. According to the police, the soldiers that fired
the shots were from Ikeja Cantonment of the Nigerian Army and posted to Kara
Market.
New Telegraph gathered that the
soldiers left their beat and went to Isheri Olofin, where the indigenes of
the town were celebrating their annual festival and allegedly started fomenting
trouble.
On arrival, the soldiers were said
to have had some altercations with youths of the town, and in the ensuing
melee, they shot one of the youths, later identified as Damilare Adelani.
One of the soldiers and three other
civilians were injured in the incident. When the soldiers later took one of
their injured colleagues to a nearby hospital, they reportedly saw one of the
youths receiving treatment and ordered the doctor on duty at gunpoint to
abandon his patient.
After sending the doctor packing at
gunpoint, the soldiers stabbed the injured youth to death.
In a statement yesterday, the state
Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the state’s
police commissioner, Bashir Makama, has ordered a full scale investigation into
the Isheri Day shootings.
He disclosed that efforts are
in place to ensure that the suspected killers were brought to book, as,
"the command has contacted the military authorities in Ogun State."
The statement partly reads:
"Credible information at the disposal of the Command has it that on the
said date, four men of the Nigerian Army believed to be from Ikeja Cantonment
and posted to Kara Market, left their beats and went to Isheri Olofin, a border
town between Lagos and Ogun states where the indigenes of the town were
celebrating their annual 'Isheri Day.' The soldiers, on getting there, had a
minor disagreement with some youths which made the soldiers to start shooting
sporadically into the air. Consequently, Damilare Adelani was hit by bullets
and he died on the spot.
“The ugly incident infuriated the
people at the scene, who in turn reacted violently against the soldiers,
leaving one of the soldiers and three other civilians injured. The
soldiers quickly took their injured colleague to a hospital (name withheld)
where they met one of the injured civilians being attended to by a medical
doctor on duty.”
The statement from the officials of
the hospital revealed that the soldiers ordered the doctor on gunpoint, to
leave the injured man and attend to their colleague. They then dragged the
patient out of the bed and subsequently stabbed him to death with a bayonet
attached to the muzzle of his rifle.
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