Posted on: 04:50 Tue, 20 Oct 2015



An assistant superintendent of police
attached to the Adigbe Police Station
in Ogun State, Emmanuel Ogunlesi
has inflicted a life-threatening
injuries on the head of a 25-year-old
student of the Moshood Abiola
Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State,
Peter Taiwo.

Taiwo, a Higher National Diploma 1
student of Computer Science was
allegedly attacked by Ogunlesi at
about 11:00pm last Thursday at
Olatidoye Street in the Oluwo area of
the state capital.

When our correspondent visited him
on his sick bed at the hospital on
Monday afternoon, the victim who
looked emaciated was in a state of
near-coma.

He could neither open his eyes nor
utter any word . He was also so weak
that he almost fell off a chair when
attempts were made to sit him up.

According an witness, Kehinde Bello
said Ogunlesi came to the student-
dominated area on a motorcycle in
company of another policeman and
had earlier beaten two female
students in the area with his baton
on their buttocks and breasts before
they escaped.

Bello further alleged that the police
officer accosted Taiwo while in
pursuit of the two female students
who had taken to their heels,
following the beatings they received
from him.

Another witness alleged that
Ogunlesi and his colleague however
turned their attention to Taiwo who
they pursued into his residence
where he caught up with the fleeing
student and allegedly dealt on him
several blows on the head with his
baton.

The policeman was said to have left
the student unconscious in a pool of
blood and escaped from the scene
along with his colleague who rode
the motorcycle.

Reacting to the incident, the Acting
Police Public Relations Officer for
the Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi
told our correspondent that the
police officer involved had already
been summoned to the Eleweran
headquarters of the Command and
was currently undergoing
interrogation.

Oyeyemi disclosed that the state
Commissioner of Police, Abdulmajid
Ali has also ordered a
comprehensive investigation of the
incident.

He added that the police high
command in the state would not
condone any form of violation of
human rights of the citizens.

Meanwhile, the state Chairman of
the Committee for the Defence of
Human Rights, Mr. Olayinka Folarin
said that the CDHR would employ all
legal means to ensure that justice
was done concerning the matter.

Folarin also condemned alleged
brutality by police officers against
innocent citizens.

Source: Vanguard