An Assistant Superintendent of Police, Salawu Kazeem, has been arrested and detained by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly torturing a 21-year-old carpenter, Ganiyu Akinyemi, to death in the Aboru area of Lagos State,PUNCH Metro reports.

Kazeem and two accomplices, identified only as Yusuf and other unknown, were arrested on Tuesday.Ganiyu, who hailed from Aiyetoro in the Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, was staying with his parents in the area.
Our correspondent gathered that on Monday at about 5pm, the ASP and four men had come to the deceased’s apartment on Victor Fagbemi Street, Aboru.

They had reportedly accused the carpenter of stealing three T-shirts in a house where he went to work the previous week.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the house, where Ganiyu allegedly stole the shirts, was also where the ASP lived.It was gathered that the ASP arrested Ganiyu and told his family that he would detain him at the nearest police station.

When the family members went to the Oke Odo Police Division around 7pm, the 21-year-old was not found there, while no report had been made in the station.The family members were called on the telephone around 3am on Tuesday that he was admitted at the Oke Odo General Hospital.
He had reportedly sustained injuries on the knees, hands and forehead.

When the family members got to the hospital, they were said to have been met by one of the men who followed the ASP to the house. They were also said to have been told by a doctor that Ganiyu was dead.
The matter was thereafter reported to the Oke Odo Police Division on Tuesday and the ASP and two of the men were arrested, while two others escaped.
Our correspondent learnt that the ASP reportedly begged the victim’s family at the police station, saying Ganiyu’s death was a mistake.

Speaking with PUNCH Metro, Ganiyu’s father, Alhaji Akinyemi Ibrahim, who is also the chairman of the community development association, said he released his son to the men because he saw the ASP’s identity card and trusted that his son was being taken to a police station.
Ibrahim added that he was shocked to realise that Ganiyu was taken to the complainant’s house, where the ASP also stayed, and was tortured till he became unconscious.
He said,
“On that Monday, at about 5pm, I had just returned from a wedding in Kano State and I was very tired. Five men came to the house and asked for Ganiyu. When he came out, they started threatening him.
“I asked them to identify themselves, and the ASP showed me his ID card, and said Ganiyu stole some T-shirts when he came to fix kitchen cabinets in his house. He added that he had come to arrest him.
“I did not have any problem with that. I felt secured that it was a police officer who came to take him away, and he had said he would be taking him to the nearest police station, which was Oke Odo division. I told them that I would take a shower, rest a little and meet them at the station.“But to my surprise, around 7pm when I wanted to go, the phone number that the ASP and his men gave us was switched off. I sent one of my sons to check them at the police station.“The boy, however, rushed back to say Ganiyu was not taken to any station.“It was around 3am on the following day that we got a call that Ganiyu was hospitalised and was in a critical condition at the Oke Odo General Hospital.“When the hospital officials realised that his knees, hands and forehead had been badly injured, they insisted that they would only attend to him when they saw a family member; that was when the ASP and his men were forced to call us on the telephone.”
Ganiyu’s elder sister, Saidat Ibrahim, said,
“Ganiyu had told us that the men gave him the T-shirts after he finished working in the house. But when they wanted to frame him up, they said he stole the shirts.”
Our correspondent gathered that the police had gone to search the ASP’s apartment, and efforts were on to get the two runaway suspects.
The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Joe Offor, confirmed the ASP’s arrest, adding that the case would be transferred to the State Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba, for further investigation.
He said,
“The police cannot confirm yet whether the ASP and the men killed the victim or not because investigation is still ongoing. The police officer and two others have been arrested, and the case will be transferred to the SDCI today (Wednesday), where detailed investigation will be carried out.”

Source: http://www.punchng.com/asp-tortures-21-year-old-carpenter-to-death/

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Hm

What that ASP most face justice once and for all death belong to the ASP.

Only In Nigeria! Police Are Bunch Of Brainless Animal In Human Skin.

Very pathetic story. What is three shirt to human life. Meanwhile, @ OP edit the subject as the whole story gotta nothing to do with Ogun State.

Can u imagine

These policemen think they have impunity to do what the desire...
I hope he is severely punished so that other will take a cue n learn not to mess with ppl's lives.




RIP to the Dead

this is seriously serious
this issue must be treated as the case of the DPO

thats definatly murder,dy must face d music and dance in hell

Give him 25 years with hard labour.


I would have suggested sending him to sambisa forest but the place doesn't sound as dreadful as it used to be again.

Asp u took it to d xtreme.
Can u buy life?
Smh

And yet they ll say police is ur friend

Police is your friend indeed. Useless people.

Naija police brains need reset.

Shameless animals!NPF should be scrapped!

End time policemen

The policeman hammered the carpenter to death
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Some evil men wear uniforms these days, even worse than frat boys.
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smh

too bad

These men don't deserve to see the next day, let it be tooth for tooth and an eye for eye. Too many wicked people in this nation.

Chai! So bad but I think this is good for them - below

Shocking! How we killed 9 policemen at Ikorodu creek

when police arrests police.. hmmmm

Hmm, another police brutality... Part of the change?

Bullshit

I think is high time FG looks into the acts establishing Nigeria police



This people work as if they are not bound by any law in this country.


They whatever they want.


Or even scrape the goddamn police

End time illiterate Supol.

Choi

Death sentence awaits this young man's killers.

But his dad no try at all ooo. Some hooligans came to your house and you allowed them take your son because of a 'common identity card'? He even said he will go to the station after taking his bath and rest . If he had followed them immediately, they wouldn't have taken him to their house and that young soul would still be alive.

May God give us the wisdom and ability to train and protect our kids in the right way.

Even if he stole the shirts, haba! To kill him for stealing shirts? Na wa o l.