Father demands justice for his son, who was allegedly killed by soldiers

David Adekunle, an estate agent in Ilesa, has expressed his sorrow over the loss of his son, Yinka Adekunle, who died at the Nigerian Army Infantry Battalion Barracks, Ibodi, Ilesa.

Adekunle has previously said that his car dealer son had been tortured to death by battalion troops.

“My 37-year-old only son, Yinka, was having a good time at a beer parlor with his two buddies when a heated altercation broke out between them and two soldiers in mufti,” he said.

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“The troops allegedly summoned a colleague, who arrived and captured one of them, while Yinka and the other managed to flee the scene, leaving his car.”

“My son then phoned the troops, who allegedly requested him to come to their barracks in Ibodi with 50,000 naira to bail his automobile.”

“On arriving to the barracks, on my son’s offer to come and bail him out,” Adekunle recounted. The troops at the entrance directed me to go visit him at the Ayeso police station. I was sent to the Wesley guild hospital from the police station.”

Adekunle, who said he was startled to find his son’s motionless corpse on a mortuary slab, further called on the military to examine the circumstances surrounding the heinous crime and prosecute those responsible for the extrajudicial assassination.

He requested that the barracks’ commanding officer be held accountable for the horrible act.

He said that his son’s buddy, who was reportedly tortured in the same way, is presently in critical condition at an unidentified hospital’s emergency unit.

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Lieutenant Tobi Adedapo, the Commanding Officer of the Infantry Barracks, refuted the claim, calling it “unfounded and untrue.”