Policemen tortured, shot me within Lagos police HQ –Mechanic

A 30-year-old mechanic, Oladele Adebanjo, has accused the policemen attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Lagos State Police Command of torturing and shooting him while he was in detention.

Adebanjo said he spent seven days in the SARS custody at the police command headquarters in Ikeja, over false allegations that he stole a commercial bus.

He said, “In August 2011, I took a Mazda bus model E2000 on a hire purchase agreement of N1.8m which was meant to be paid in N30,000 monthly instalments from a businessman, Olatunji Adeyemi.

“Though there were slight defaults in payment which arose from mechanical faults and a major accident sometimes in February 2012, I carried Adeyemi along and discharged my obligations accordingly and paid N910, 000 by September 14, 2012 before the bus was stolen.”

He said the bus was stolen at the residence of the driver he employed to drive it in Ikorodu area of the state and reported the matter at the Sagamu Road Police Division.

He added that Adeyemi got furious about the incident and reported at the Oworo Police Division that he stole the bus so as to evade the payment of the outstanding money.

He said, “On October 22, after about six weeks of  unsuccessful search for the bus, I and the driver reported back to the Oworo Police Division as I was instructed to do but surprisingly the IPO in charge of the matter said my case had been transferred to SARS.”

He said a policeman from SARS came for them at the Oworo station, got them handcuffed and drove them to the command headquarters in Ikeja where they were received by Taofeek Olokede at the SARS.

He said, “As soon as we got there, Olokede asked for Adebanjo and as soon as I identified myself, he gave me a dirty slap. He immediately moved me to a room where he stripped me leaving only my pants on.

“He tied my hands and hung me to a metal pipe fitted to a wall. He also put stone into a container and used a chain to hang it on my neck. He beat me intermittently in the process and this lasted for about an hour before he removed it.

“The driver and four other persons arrested for another alleged incident suffered similar fate and two of them gave up the ghost after intense torture in the process. When I refused to make an incriminating statement that I stole the bus, he brought out a pistol from his holster and shot me at the leg.”

Adebanjo said the bullet pierced through his leg, adding that Olokede thereafter ordered his men to move him to the cell.

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Mr Dayo, is this for real?

I believe it is. except the stones and the gun, i have also been tortured before. so it is very possible.

he is a bitter man and he is making us aware of his escapade