Solomon Adeola, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, has accused soldiers operating checkpoints around the Ikeja axis of Lagos State of robbing and killing his aide, Mr. Adeniyi Sanni, on August 5. Adeola claimed that Sanni was stopped at a checkpoint around the Ojodu-Berger, Lagos, on his way to his home at Isheri. He was asked to provide the documents of his car, which he did through a WhatsApp message. However, when the wife called him later, the soldiers were still checking the vehicle's particulars. Adeola believes that his aide was killed by a syndicate of soldiers operating under Brigadier General Nsikan John Edet, under the newly deployed Commander of 9 Brigade, Ikeja Cantonment of the Nigeria Army. He has urged Chief of Army Staff, Major General Taoreed Lagbaja, to direct the fishing out of the killers of his aide for further investigation, prosecution, and justice for the deceased. Adeola said such a pattern of killings and armed robbery had been established against soldiers mounting late-night checkpoints around Ikeja, with similar unreported incidents in recent times around Ikeja. He added that the Army could not be seen to condone or harbor rogue elements robbing and killing innocent Nigerians "within its fold."
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