According to a PUNCH Metro
report, the family of Sodiq Tijani, an automobile mechanic, is in a bad mood
presently after his wife, Kehinde, lost her four-month-old pregnancy to an
alleged assault by their landlady, Toyin Sulaimon aka Iya Sade, and her sons,
Azeez and Baba Oja, in the Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos State.
The
house, which is located on No 33 Udem Street, Brown bus stop, Iju-Ishaga, was
bequeathed to Toyin and her siblings and the room Sadiq rented belonged to one
of her siblings, identified simply as Bankole.
While Toyin had been
collecting rent from Sodiq on behalf of her brother, a disagreement between her
and the tenant was said to have started when he refused to follow her
instruction to lie to Bankole that he had yet to pay his rent though she had
allegedly collected six months’ rent from him.
Annoyed by his refusal,
Toyin was said to have ordered him to park out of the apartment after his rent
must have elapsed, but while the tenant was making arrangements to leave the
house, the landlady and her sons allegedly assaulted Sodiq and his pregnant wife,
which led to the loss of the pregnancy.
Sodiq, who said he was
inside the room when Toyin called him out and started assaulting him, added
that Baba Oja came with about 16 people, who also beat him until he was
bleeding.
He alleged that Azeez,
while forcing his way into his room, damaged his property and hit his wife in
her stomach with a rod.
The 28-year-old mechanic
said, “After I paid her (Toyin)N32,000, she wanted me to lie to her brother and
I refused. She became annoyed and said I wanted to tear her family apart; she
told me to park out after my rent must have expired without giving me a notice
to quit, but I still went ahead to make arrangements to leave.
“On Monday, February 25,
2019, I was inside my room when she said she needed to see me and I obliged.
Immediately I got to her shop, she locked me up and started assaulting me. It
became worse when her son, Baba Oja, came with about 16 people, who beat me
till I was bleeding all over my body.
“The people around begged
them to stop, but when I went to my room, I was shocked to see my wife holding
her stomach and writhing in pain. Some of my properties had been damaged and
when I asked her who did it, she said it was Azeez, who hit her stomach with a
rod while forcing his way in.”
Sodiq said the persistent
pain his wife was feeling after the assault prompted them to visit the Leke
Memorial Hospital the following day, adding that a scan revealed that the
foetus in her womb had died.
He lamented that despite
reporting the assault at Area ‘G’ Police Command, Ogba, Lagos, the inspectors
in charge of the case refused to thoroughly investigate the matter, because
they had allegedly connived with the perpetrators to cover up the crime. The
Oyo State indigene said:
I reported the assault
around 4pm on the same day, but the police inspector I met said it was late and
told me to come the following day so that Toyin and her sons could be arrested.
Early the next morning, two police officers accompanied me to arrest Toyin and
I was surprised that when the officers saw her, they allowed her to take a
bath.
“She used that opportunity
to call some boys, who prevented the officers from arresting her, and ever
since then, Inspector Abuja and Inspector Ramatu and one other officer have not
been able to apprehend the culprits.”
Sodiq’s wife, Kehinde, said
she was still in shock over the loss of her pregnancy, adding that the police
officers handling the case had been compromised.
PUNCH Metro reports that in
a bid to get justice, Kehinde, Sodiq and his sister, Iyabo Saheed, visited the
Lagos State Public Advice Centre, where a call was put across to the
Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Mu’azu, who reportedly ordered the Area
Commander, Area ‘G’ Police Command, to immediately investigate the case.
Saheed stated that the
police inspectors, who handled the matter, never briefed the Area Commander
about the case because they wanted to cover it up, adding that when the
commander requested the case file to charge the matter to court, he observed
that the inspectors had allegedly framed Sodiq up.
“If the case was charged to
court based on the report the police investigators presented to their area
commander, Sodiq would have been jailed. But we were there when the area
commander read the case file and when he asked after Sodiq, he raised his hand
and he challenged him as to why he beat up a pregnant woman to the point that
she lost her pregnancy.
“It was at that point that
I explained what actually happened. Kehinde was also there to testify on the
pregnancy that she lost and the area commander became annoyed with Inspectors
Abuja and Ramatu and one other.
“What made the matter worse
was that when he asked for Toyin, Azeez and Baba Oja, the cops could not
produce them and he immediately served them queries in our presence. These
inspectors are very wicked and they need to be punished for what they did.”
When contacted, Toyin said
when she asked Sodiq for the rent he owed, he allegedly punched her on the
chest.
She said, “My children and
I did not beat anybody. What happened was that Sodiq’s rent had been due for a
year and three months and when I asked for the money, he punched me on my
chest.
“We are currently at the
police station because of the matter; when we are done, I will call you back.”
The Lagos State Police
Public Relations Officer, DSP Elkana Bala, who confirmed the incident to our
correspondent, said the Area Commander, Area ‘G’, had taken over the matter on
the orders of Mu’azu and had transferred the case to the Zone 2 Command in
Onikan for further investigation.
Elkana said, “The
Commissioner of Police has directed the Area Commander, Area ‘G’, to take over
the matter from the two inspectors and after his involvement, he said the
concerned parties left his office happy because he had done the needful.
“The Area Commander has
also ordered a team of policemen to arrest Toyin, Azeez and Baba Oja and to
transfer them to the Zone 2 for further investigation.”
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