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This is more than madness! Unrepentant police officers in
Ondo State have allegedly killed Aderonke Eze, a widow who
owns a “bear parlor joint” close to her residence in Akure, the
state capital.
Mrs. Eze, who lived at No. 1, Akinyemi Street, off Ijoka
road, Sijuwade close in Akure, was slain with a gun butt by
police officers from Ala unit of the Oda Divisional Police
Station of the Ondo Command.
It was gathered that the woman was killed on Sunday evening
by the crazy officers...
According to Sahara Reporters, after her death, the policemen
dumped the remains of the deceased widow, who left behind
three little children, at the general hospital’s morgue in Akure.
It was learnt that the killer police officers, seven in number,
stormed the streets around 18:45 on Sunday in a Hilux van
with a register plate number NPF 4236 B from the Oda
Divisional Station.
Witnesses told Sahara Reporters the policemen were carrying
out an illegal house check with an aggressive search of all
residential apartments on the street.
A sergeant simply identified as "Officer Fabunmi" led the
policemen.
Several residents said the policemen are in the habit of raiding
the street, arresting young boys suspected to be smoking Indian
hemp. The raid was to identify specific houses in the
neighborhood.
A close neighbor and eyewitness, Ibrahim Adegunle, told
Sahara Reporters on Monday that the rampaging officers,
upon invading Mrs. Eze's flat, ordered the occupants out of
the passage of the building.
Mr. Adegunle, an electrician, said the mission of the policemen
could not be immediately ascertained as they quickly embarked
on a “house check” without any warrant.
“Even the woman was not at that home when they [the
policemen] stormed the building. She went for a ceremony in
the second street but fortunately, she arrived and met us
arguing with the policemen.
Mrs. Eze was not around at the beginning but arrived while
her neighbors were arguing with the police.
“During the process of the argument, she demanded to know
what exactly was going on and she was told that some people
in the street are selling contraband items, mostly marijuana, to
the youths in the street,” Mr. Adegunle said. He said that
Mrs. Eze contested that since she doesn’t engage in any
contraband business but merely owns a mini-bear parlor, she
should not be subjected to the search, but an impatient police
officer shouted on her and hit her in the head.
“The woman made several [moves in] resistance but she was
again beaten and wounded with [the] gun butt while she fell on
the floor of the passage, lying unconscious, and stopped
breathing,” Mr Adegunle continued. “The officers immediately
fled the street in their van and refused to make any arrest,
sensing they [had] killed the woman.”
Following the sad incident the residents and sympathizers in the
community on Monday took to the streets of “Sijuwade
Quarters” and protested the killing of the 50-year-old
woman.
Another resident who asked to remain anonymous said during
the protest that illegal arrests were carried out by the
policemen in the evening of every weekend.
“They will just enter the street and start arresting our young
boys,” the resident said. “Many of them would be [accused] of
being in possession of Indian hemp. Before you know it, they
would be asking us to pay N10,000 before we could bail them.”
“This is not the first nor second time, but I do hope it would
be their last time because the whole world must here this sad
news," a furious resident said.
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