A 43-year old Lotto operator has been allegedly beaten to death by policemen at Okokomaiko area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.

The deceased, Bukola Adeogun was said to have been tortured to death by the police officers at Okokomaiko Police Station at Oke-Afa area on Wednesday.

It was gathered that the deceased was arrested by the police with 30 other residents on Tuesday night while the police were carrying out criminal raid in the area.

The victim, who owned a Lotto kiosk was said to have been arrested while leaving his shop that fateful Tuesday night by the police

Sources said many of those arrested by thee police were tortured, including the deceased.

According to wife of the deceased, Adewunmi Adeogun, she went to the station to see her husband, but was prevented from doing so by the police.

She said her husband was about leaving his shop when the police arrested him, saying that efforts to ensure he was not taken proved abortive because many people who could solicit for him had also run away to prevent being arrested by the police.

In her words: “After they left the community, I went straight to the Police Station with some co-tenants, begging them to release him to me. But they did not. I was asked to come on Wednesday, to seek his bail. At about 2 am on Wednesday, the police brought him home. But at that time, my husband was already emitting foams from his mouth. He could not move any part of his body. All efforts to revive him proved abortive.
“When I inquired from those who were arrested with him, they claimed that he was tortured and teargas during the interrogation.”

Some people in the area accused the police of killing the deceased as he foamed in the mouth.

When contacted, Police Public Relation Officer, PPRO, Chike Oti denied that the victim was killed by the police, saying that he was arrested by the police during a raid in the area and brought to the police station.

According to him, nobody died at the police’s premises and that no one was tortured.

SOURCE
https://www.reportnaija.ng/2018/02/01/police-beat-lotto-operator-death-0/

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That is bad

That's The Nigeria we live in...

Nigerian police force....the best police force in the world

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@TalkTalkTwins

The same people who are meant to protect us are against us

Arrest Fulani herdsmen...no
Protect us from political criminals...no
but they shoot and kill carelessly, as if every soul is not equal.

Sometimes I just wish I'm not a Nigerian!

This is just so sad!
[s]Now the government will act like they never saw this...[/s]

Yet people want to be sympathetic to the police when they die.. How ironic!

na waaaa oooooo

pENSION OF THE POLICE SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE FAMILY OF THE DECEASED

What a shïthole

Anyway, RIP
Nigeria is messed up!

Biggest b**bs I ver seen
See photos

serve him right.. this is the kind of Nigeria, West want desperately.... Sai baba

this is why i never pity them when calamity befalls them.

Ewooo!!!

Shiithole police, always denying

According to him, nobody died at the police’s premises and that no one was tortured.
God knows everything
Let your perfect peace reign in our Land

hi

God will definitely intervene on behalf of the dead!! and reward the murderer according to their deed

No wonder our police was rated as the worse in the world. SMH

NPF..

One good news

fifty bad news.

Untrained savages

You see, typical Nigeria police for you. And somebody was saying in a particular thread that THE POLICE IS YOUR FRIEND. When I see a Nigeria police on fire, I will make sure I add petrol to that fire. Criminals in uniforms.

Police again All these nonsense must stop. Like I said earlier, that's why most of them remain in one rank for ages without getting promotion. Na only transfer.

That's God's way of fighting for the innocent

Haa! aiye o. why would they detain him for more than the normal stipulated period at first? police and their iniquities is immeasurable

9ja police na mumu killer's

AFONJAPIG:
serve him right.. this is the kind of Nigeria, West want desperately.... Sai baba

Permit me to ask, are you usually this daft?

O DI EGWU

LyfeJennings:
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is for hammer..."I' is for ink

If they call them(NPF) the worst police in the world now, their PRO will come and say it is a lie. They just like to do anyhow cos they think they can and get away with it. So sad.