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Many victims of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad SARS has continued to share tales of agony and sorrow of how they or their relatives suffered at the hands of the rogue squad.
A mother, on Thursday, November 12, shared the sad story of how her son, Seyi Akinade, killed himself after losing N7 million in forex trading following his arrest and illegal detention by SARS operatives.
According to DailyTrust reports, Mrs. Funmilayo Akinade told the judicial panel in Ogun state that her son, who was a student of the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta FUNAAB, was arrested alongside other students on February 3 this year, when SARS operatives from the Zonal Intervention Squad, a police formation at Obada-Oko, near Abeokuta, allegedly raided her son’s hostel.
As a result of the unwarranted arrest, he became depressed after he was released and drank a poisonous liquid later confirmed by a medical doctor to be the insecticide brand “sniper”, the devastated mother said.
A witness and a friend of the deceased who also was among those arrested by the disbanded SARS operatives narrated their encounter and said,
“On February 3, 2020, Inspector Babajide Adebusuyi and his three other colleagues raided and arrested all the 17 students staying inside Chocolate City Hostel at Camp, Abeokuta, detained and locked us all night inside the cell at the Station.
The officers did not tell us what our offence was but rather when we got to the station, we were locked up with other 52 inmates already in a small cell after we were asked to pay a sum of two million naira for bail which we could not afford to pay.”
In addition, Adejoro said that while in the police custody, his late friend who was a forex trader severally told the officers that he had opened a trading business online that would run into loss if not attended to, but they refused him access to his mobile phone, slapped and even made a jest of him which eventually made him lost over seven million naira.
He said that before his friend committed suicide on April 22, 2020, he went on his Twitter page and wrote severally, “this is my story in case anyone is wondering why I did it”. He told the panel that on Seyi’s last day on earth, he wrote
“I guess it’s goodbye now…no one heard my cry for justice and this had to happen haha…bye world”.
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