A 200-level university student, John Ekefre, has been admitted into the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital after policemen from the Iponri division tortured him and damaged his intestine.

He was said to have been operated on to rectify the internal injury and to remove “the blood clots” that blocked his chest as a result of the torture.

His elder sister, Mercy Ekefre, told our correspondent, who visited LASUTH on Tuesday that the family had spent over N200,000 on John’s treatment.

“The doctor said his intestine was ruptured and that he had a blood clot. He had a surgery and we are still awaiting the medical report,” she added.

It was learnt that John, an appendicitis patient who works in a cinema house in Surulere, and four other friends were going for a church programme tagged, The Experience, organised by the House on the Rock at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos Island, after they had closed from work around 11pm on Friday, December 4.

Our correspondent learnt that John and Anthony Kenkwo, a graduate of a university in Imo State, had waited for three other colleagues, Michael Peter, Godwin Ekeji and Joy Imoh on the fateful day so that they could go for the programme in a group.

It was said that on getting to the Costain area, the vehicle that the young men boarded ran into gridlock and they decided to alight from the commercial bus.

PUNCH Metro gathered that they were walking by the roadside when they were arrested by the policemen, who accused them of robbery.

John, 22, said he and his friends showed the cops their identity cards, but were rebuffed. He said the policemen beat him to a coma when he demanded to know what their offence was.

He said:

“I work at a cinema in Surulere. We were on afternoon duty that fateful Friday. We closed around 11pm and left for TBS to attend a church programme – The Experience 10.

“When we got to Costain, we alighted from the bus we boarded because there was gridlock. About five policemen on patrol stopped us and we told them we were going to the church. They searched our bags, but nothing incriminating was found there. They forced us into their bus. We showed them our identity cards, but they ignored us.

“On our way to the station, I asked them what our offence was and they said we were highway robbers. When we got to the station, they dragged me down, beat me up and one of them hit me in the stomach with the butt of his gun.

“They said I was too inquisitive. The following day, they collected N6,000 from my brother before I was released.”

Kenkwo said a policeman pummelled him when he complained that their arrest was not justified. He said he eventually parted with N5,500 before he was release.

He said:

“It was a bitter experience. Every Friday and Saturday, we run late night shows. After the close of work, Ekefre and I waited for three other friends from Apapa so that we would go to the programme in a group. The traffic was hectic that night and we decided to disembark from the bus because the guys with us looked stern.

“I also asked the officer who took my statement what I did. But he responded with punches. It was while I was in the cell that I started bleeding from the nose.

“They charged me N10,000 for bail. It was after my brother bargained with them that they collected N5,500. They collected N5,000 from Godwin (Ekeji’s) family, but Joy, the only female among us, was released free.”

Peter told our correspondent that the policemen collected N8,000 before he was released.

Godwin could not be reached but Ekefre confirmed that his (Godwin’s) relatives paid N5,000 for his bail.

A lawyer and President, Citizens Rights Defenders, Chief Gabriel Ojumah, said he had, in a petition dated December 14, urged the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, Federal Ministry of Justice and the National Human Rights Commission “to investigate the matter and bring the erring policemen to book.”

Calls made to the line of the Lagos State police spokesperson, DSP Joe Offor, rang out. He had also yet to reply to a text message sent to his number as of time of filing this report.

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A 15-year-old Arabic pupil, Sodiq Isa, has been arrested for allegedly beating a 26-year-old neighbour, Johnson Adeboye, to death with a stick on Townhall Street in the Amukoko area of Lagos.

According to PUNCH, the duo reportedly had a disagreement after the deceased complained that the suspect was making a noise with a plate. The suspect was alleged to have abused the deceased, which led to a fight.

In the course of the scuffle, Isa, who is the third of four children, beat the deceased to death with a stick.

He was said to have been arrested by policemen from the Amukoko division before he was transferred to the State Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba.

The suspect said Adeboye, a Keke Marwa (tricycle) driver, had first attacked him, and he was forced to retaliate.

He recounted;

“I was returning from Arabic school at about 5pm that day (December 5). The plate I used in taking food to school fell from my hands. I picked it up and went to a shop close by to clean it up. There was a table in front of the shop; so, I hit the plate on the table to remove the sand inside the plate. Johnson (Adeboye) was in front of the shop, and he told me that I was making a noise with it.

I told him I was only trying to clean up the sand in the plate. He asked me if I was mad, that why should I be talking to him like that. I responded and told him I was not mad. He warned me that if I continued to talk back at him, he would beat me up. I ignored his threat and walked home.”

He added that the victim followed him home and continued the threat.

Later, Isa’s grandma, who was at home at the time, reportedly intervened and asked what the matter was. The suspect claimed that he was explaining what had transpired to her when the victim attacked him from behind.

“Johnson came from behind and started beating me. Some people around separated us and he left, but he returned some minutes later to assault me again.

People separated us for the second time, but he went to call one of his friends. Both of them started assaulting me.

It was at this point that I felt the urge to defend myself. I picked a stick on the ground and hit Johnson on the head. Immediately, he fell and became unconscious. Neighbours gathered and rushed him to the hospital. But it was too late as he was already dead,” he added.

The suspect, who said he wanted to be an Islamic cleric, begged for forgiveness, saying it was not his intention to kill the deceased.

Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Joe Offor, said investigations were ongoing.

A 15-year-old schoolgirl has been charged with concealment of birth, infanticide and manslaughter after giving birth to a child secretly and allowing the child to die.

The Sun reports that “the girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, is accused of failing to provide the baby with care and medical attention following the birth, leading to the new born’s death.”

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Speaking at Manchester and Salford Magistrates’ Court today, Judge Mark Hadfield told the youngster: “This is clearly distressing for you appearing in court then having to listen to the legal argument.”

The incident was said to have happened in south Manchester in the early hours of February 11 and since then the detectives have been investigating the matter trying to decide what they would charge the girl with but today she has been charged.

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She was granted unconditional bail until her next court appearance as the case was moved to Manchester Crown Court on December 23.

Reports have it that a Final Year Student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko Ondo State – Olumuyiwa Ewarawon who was studying Psychology at the School has been murdered by a suspected para-military organization operating in the University.

He was the only son of His Aged Mother.

The family in a petition to the Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Mike Ogbodu, filed by the counsel to the deceased’s father, Chief Goodluck Ibitoye Ewarawon, alleged that Olumuyiwa was attacked in his room at Shanghai Hostel in Akungba, a private hostel outside the school campus, by the armed gang of seven boys under the guise of being student cadet officers.

The counsel to the family, Olufemi Meduoye, said:

“The armed assailants broke into Olumuyiwa’s room while he was asleep and attacked him, thereafter, brutalized, bruised and inflicted on him fatal injuries from which he fell into coma.

The gang dumped Olumuyiwa’s body at the General Hospital, Iwarooka Akoko before good samaritans brought the incident to the attention of the family three days later.”

They said they took the comatose body of Olumuyiwa from the hospital to Trauma Centre Ondo which instantly referred the case to Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife.

The family said the boy never came out of coma and died later in the hospital.

While the University authorities responded by condemning all para-military organizations in the institution, it was reported late yesterday that two of the suspects had been arrested.

Police Image Maker, Femi Joseph, who confirmed the incident said that the suspect is on the run and that detectives are on his trail. He, however, assured that the suspect would soon be apprehended and made to face the law court.

However, the family of the deceased is insisting that the culprits who allegedly killed their son should be made to face the wrath of the law.

They urged the Commissioner of Police to use his good office to ensure a full investigation of the murder of Olumuyiwa by the suspected Cadet Officers.

Also, they asked the authorities of the institution to look at the activities of some armed gang who operated under the guise of para-military to attack members of the public.

The family also asked the security forces and the state government to be alert to the activities of such organizations with a view to protecting the lives of innocent citizens.