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 visited him on his sick bed at the hospital on Monday afternoon, the victim who looked emaciated was in a state of 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 to 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.