ASSU STRIKE : UI STUDENT REPORTEDLY MISSING AT A CONSTRUCTION COMPANY IN OGOMBO , LEKKI AJAH , LAGOS
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14th March, 2022
My brother Ajayi Samson Adeola began working in a construction site named Victoria Crest homes. He worked from Monday - Saturday, sleeping at the site during these period and only comes home Saturday evening, then go back to the same site Monday morning.
On the 9th of March 2022 around 10am my mum got a call from one of the co-workers saying that they haven’t seen Samson since the night before. After lots of enquiries, we were told that a security officer took note of him stepping out of the gate of the construction site, another information given was that he left the site with an unidentified person standing in front of the gate, making a call in the process. Efforts for a search wasn’t made and the only conclusion drawn was that he probably went to another construction site to work, so the decision made was to wait for him till he gets back. After waiting until midnight without any sign of return,we decided to head to the site the next day.
On the 10th of March 2022, I, my mum, my uncle and his fiancée went down to the site, we met the engineer of the site and other workers who showed us where he (Ajayi Samson Adeola) sleeps, we went through his clothes and belongings trying to get any clue whatsoever as to his whereabouts, while going through his clothes his phone fell out. From his phone we discovered he had his last calls on the 9th of March, 2022 around 8:50pm. After several calls to the last calls and other numbers gotten from the notes he penned down, my uncle and I decided to reach out to the police, we went to Ajah police station leaving my mum and my uncle’s fiancee at the site. After getting to the police station in Ajah, we were directed to Inspector Titi to lay down our complaints. While talking to her about the situation, I was called by the engineer on the site, who told my uncle and I that they have suddenly found him and told us to start coming back to the site, hearing this we notified inspector Titi and called the engineer once more putting the phone on loudspeaker and he still told us the same thing, we told him to give Samson the phone, he told us instead that we should rather come over that he couln’t do that. We immediately called my uncle’s fiancée telling her about what we heard, she said she was told nothing and that they were still at the site where they can’t find the engineer anymore. We immediately went down to the site where we met the engineers and a few other people who told us that they found his body next to an enclosed water area.
On getting to the water side, we found a corpse with several cuts on the neck, face & arms alongside some burns, laying on the floor a few meters from the corpse were some clothes and footwear next to it. With close inquiry, we realized that the corpse wasn’t Samson but the clothes and footwear next to it were his. Due to this developments, we couldn’t help but suspect foul play, we took pictures of the corpse alongside the clothes and headed back to the site with the Inspector to ask more questions. At the site, some of the security men were called and asked questions about what they knew, the information they gave this time tallied with what we were told before with statement like “he left the site around 7am on Wednesday” another named Moshood who said he often goes to share his(Samson) mosquito net and sleeps next to him for the night and also told us that he saw him on Wednesday morning around 11am, leaving the site’s outpost. Moshood indicated that they waved at each other and in that moment noticed the clothes Samson had on. He confirmed that the clothes we saw at the beach were the one Samson had on that day. While trying to call along the securities to go along with the inspector to the station, one of them insisted that he was not moving an inch from the site, so only two of the security followed us to the station to make a statement. Getting to the station at Ajah,we were escorted to the DPO’s office who heard about the case and told us afterwards that the case wasn’t within his jurisdiction and referred us to the police station at Ogombo. At the police station in Ogombo, we presented the case and wrote down our statement, we were told afterwards that the case would continue the next day being Friday 11th of March, 2022.
The next day being Friday, 11th of March, 2022, my uncle(Mr Taiwo Ajayi) and I left home for the police station where the DCO and another police officer from Ogombo police station followed us to the site. On getting to the site, we went back to where Samson’s property were and discovered that his properties that we kept together the previous day had been ransacked by unknown persons alse. The DCO while questioning the securities, adjudged that Moshood wasn’t being coherent with his statements. We were later joined by my dad, another uncle (Mr Oladapo Babajide) of mine and his friend and headed for the beach place to see the corpse and also confirmed that the corpse wasn’t Samson’s. We then headed for the police station where we spent hours trying to mobilize the police for arrest based on the suspicion of Samson being abducted but they kept on adopting a guil approach to avoiding and delaying the issue.
Samuel Ajayi
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