Adewale
Olupitan-Hassan, who died after being allegedly brutalised by soldiers
attached to the Flag Staff House, Force Road, Lagos, has been buried.
Olupitan-Hassan was brutalised by the
soldiers who were driving in a military convoy at the Obanikoro end of
Ikorodu Road on July 15 for allegedly breaking the side mirror of one
of the vehicles in their convoy.
He later died at the Lagos University
Teaching Hospital on July 29 as a result of the injury he sustained
when he was brutalised.
At a prayer session held at his Opebi residence
before his remains were interred at the Atan Cemetery, Lagos, on
Saturday, friends, associates and family members paid tribute to the
retired director of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety
Agency.
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Adedotun said, “It’s so unfortunate and
painful that his life was cut short abruptly by those who were
commissioned and conscripted with tax payers’ money to protect him.
“The matter has definitely dragged for too
long. Friday last week, a colonel attached to the Military Police of
the 81 Division of the Nigerian Army, Lagos, called me on the phone
that the matter had been transferred from the Special Investigation
Bureau of the Nigerian Army, Arakan Barracks, Apapa, Lagos, where we
had reported the matter.
“I’m still optimistic that the transfer of the case would be for good. I have been invited by the army on Monday (today).”
The
deceased’s friend, who identified himself simply as Alhaji Funsho,
urged the army authorities to fish out the perpetrators and try them in
a criminal court.
He said, “When I heard the news, I was
surprised that the soldiers could brutalise an unarmed civilian. I
still can’t understand such barbaric and overzealous act from a soldier
that claims to be a professional. Whatever might have happened they
shouldn’t have brazenly descended on him the way they did”.
“The perpetrators have committed
manslaughter. They should stand before the law court and explain why a
defenceless man should be treated in such a manner. This will serve as a
deterrent to other overzealous uniformed men.”
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