The Ogun State Police Command has narrated how one of the people said to have been killed by soldiers in Isheri on Tuesday was murdered on the premises of a hospital.
According to the command, the victim was, at gun point, removed from his hospital bed and dragged outside where he was killed by soldiers.
The police said the man, alongside some other people, were killed by the soldiers during a riot that broke out when the people were having the ‘Ileya Day’ celebration.
The military have, however, denied the killings, saying it was the civilians that instead attacked its men.
A statement by the Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Major Clement Abiade, denied the killing in a statement.
But the Ogun State Police Command in its statement by Oyeyemi said at least four soldiers were involved in the killings.
Oyeyemi said, “The Commissioner of Police, Bashir Makama, has ordered a full-scale investigation into the “Isheri Day” shooting incident in Ogun State on August 13, 2019, by suspected soldiers believed to be from Ikeja Cantonment, with a view to bringing the suspects to justice.
“Credible Information at the disposal of the command has it that on the said date, four men of the Nigerian Army believed to be from Ikeja Cantonment and posted to Kara Market, left their beats and went to Isheri Olofin, a border town between Lagos and Ogun State where the indigenes of the town were celebrating their annual “Isheri Day”.
“The soldiers, on getting there, had a minor disagreement with some youths which made the soldiers start shooting sporadically into the air.
“Consequently, one Damilare Adelani was hit by bullets and he died on the spot. The ugly incident infuriated the people at the scene who in turn reacted violently against the soldiers leaving one of the soldiers and three other civilians injured.
“The soldiers quickly took their injured colleague to a hospital where they met one of the injured civilians being attended to by a medical doctor on duty.
“The statement from the officials of the hospital reveals that the soldiers ordered the doctor at gunpoint to leave the injured man and attend to their colleague.
“They then dragged the patient out of the bed and subsequently stabbed him to death with a Bayonet attached to the muzzle of his rifle.”
