A lounge owner in Osogbo, Osun State, Adekunle Ayomide has fallen victim of Police brutality as the second-in-command, Osun Anti-Robbery squad, Adedokun Yusuf, unleashed mayhem on the businessman for allegedly bruising his ego.
It was gathered that Yusuf visited the lounge located in the state capital last Friday evening to wind down but ended up having issues with one of the female workers therein, leading to an altercation with the manager.
The owner who was supervising activities, frowned at that three or four workers should not be talking with one customer at such peak hours, hence, tasked the worker to return to their duty post and allowed the manager handle the situation.
According to Adekunle, the customer, who he later realised is the Anti-robbery (2ic) felt embarrassed that the worker could leave his presence and pledged to teach him (Adekunle) a bitter lesson.
“The officer went out and make some calls and minutes later some three guys arrived in a pink coloured Toyota Corolla vehicle, one of them wore police jacket. Yusuf pointed at me and on getting to my place, one of them instructed that I sit on the floor but I refused.
“They went out and later return with a silver coloured Corolla car and insisted that I get into the car. I inquired what was my offence, rather than explained my offence I was bundled into the car and they drove me straight to their office located at the Police command headquarters.
“On getting there, Yusuf took a Cutlass, one of his surbodinates took a big stick and started hitting simultaneously instructing that I should remove my clothes and lie on the floor. While I was asking my offence that warranted that I should lie down, Yusuf was matcheting me and the other guy hitting me all over my body till I succumbed to their wills.
“After which Yusuf continuously beat me with the Cutlass fifteen times. Later my friends arrived and called an officer who facilitated my release around 6:30pm”.
The traumatized youngman called, therefore called on the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun the State Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Gotan to assist him get justice by promoting the said officer to explain his offence to the world.
“It is unfortunate that a law officer can annihilate me after coming to enjoy himself at my outlet and ended up dehumanizing me without any reason. I am pleading with the Inspector General of Police, the Osun State’s Commissioner of Police to investigate the incident with a view to getting justice for me and curb similar act of injustice from happening to others”, he added.
When contacted, the Osun Police command spokesperson, Abiodun Ojelabi said the command was aware of the incident and it is currently investigating the said officer with a view to unearthing the truth.
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