Boy starts talking after one week of being brutalised by police

The family of the 25-year-old student of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Peter Taiwo, who was allegedly brutalised, Thursday last week by Emmanuel Ogundaisi, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, has demanded that justice must be done in the matter.

Taiwo’s elder sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Arowosaye, who spoke on behalf of the family made this demand yesterday while speaking with City Today on the incident.

Taiwo, a Higher National Diploma 1 student of Computer Science, was allegedly attacked by Ogundaisi, attached to the Adigbe Police Station at about 11:00pm last Thursday, at Olatidoye Street in the Oluwo area of the state capital.

As at Monday afternoon, the victim who had become frail was in a state of near-coma.

Already, the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) and the National Association of Nigerian Students  (NANS) have demanded the dismissal of the police officer, who allegedly brutalised Taiwo.

NANS, which threatened a nationwide protest against the police, also demanded that N50 million compensation be paid to the victim.

But the victim’s elder sister, who warned that nothing untoward must happen to him as a result of the police officer’s attack, said that all the family wanted was justice in the matter.

She insisted that the erring police officers must be punished appropriately in order to serve as a deterrent to other policemen, who might want to take advantage of their uniform to maltreat and brutalise innocent Nigerians.

“I’m sister to the victim. All I want is for Nigerians to save us because actually he’s a student and we’ve sent him there to read and not to be battered. So, Nigerians should just save us. Nothing must happen to him. That’s all. We are demanding for justice; justice must be done.”
Arowosaye, however, said the brutalised student had been responding to treatment and exhibiting some signs of improvement.
“Actually, the day it happened, he was taken to the hospital and doctors have been attending to him. He’s improving bit by bit but we pray to God to give him full recovery. He talks a bit now,” she said.