Policeman Breaks Student’s Skull In Ogun State(Photo)

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 our correspondent visited him on his sick bed at

the hospital on Monday afternoon, the victim who looked

emaciated was in a state of near-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 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.

Folarin also condemned alleged brutality by police

officers against innocent citizens.

Source: Vanguard