The chairman Senate Committee on Appropriations, Solomon Adeola has alleged that soldiers of the Nigerian Army operating at a check point in Ikeja area of Lagos State are responsible for the killing of his senior aide, Adeniyi Sanni, in the early hours of Saturday August 5, 2023.
Adeola in a statement he personally signed said update on the investigation of the murder of his Senior Aide by the Nigeria Police Force revealed that his aide was killed by a syndicate of soldiers operating under the newly deployed Commander of 9 Brigade, Ikeja Cantonment of the Nigerian Army.
The Ogun Senator said top police sources familiar with the investigation informed him that a similar brutal killing and armed robbery occurred around the same Ojodu- Berger late Thursday night of August 17, 2023 resulting in the killing of another Nigerian whose body was discovered around Iyana- Ipaja after he was taken away by soldiers from the checkpoint.
Adeola had earlier stated that information available to him on the circumstances surrounding the death of his Sanni was that , he was stopped at a check point around Ojodu- Berger Area of Lagos on his way to his home at Isheri by “security agents” who asked him to provide the documents of the car he was driving.
The deceased provided all documents after he called his wife to send all the documents to his phone. He further stated that the wife called a while later and the late Sanni told his wife , that the soldiers were still checking the vehicle papers.
He said that was the last she heard from her husband and the body of Sanni, ridden with bullets was later discovered at the Toyota Bus Stop area of Oshodi, close to a military barrack.
Senator Adeola called on the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Taoreed Lagbaja to direct the fishing out of the killers of his aide for further investigation, prosecution and justice for the deceased as a pattern of killings and armed robbery has been established against soldiers mounting late night checkpoints around Ikeja with similar unreported incidences in recent times around Ikeja.
He added that the Nigerian Army cannot be seen to condone or harbour rogue elements robbing and killing innocent Nigerians within its fold.
The lawmaker pointed that till date, the black Toyota Camry of his aide Sanni, his phones and other valuables are yet to be recovered.
