The remains of an aide of Senator Solomon Adeola Olamilekan aka Yayi, representing Ogun West Senatorial District, Mr. Adeniyi Oluwatosin Sanni, who was brutally murdered by unknown assassins recently, would be buried tomorrow, Wednesday August 23, 2023 at the Redeemed Camp Vault, Mowe, along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway at 11 a.m.
Burial rites for the Departed soul begins on Tuesday August 22, 2023 with Service of Songs at 32, Adeniyi Jones Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos at 5:P.M, while a candle light procession will hold at 6:P.M.
The take off point for the procession is 32, Adeniyi Jones Avenue, and branded T-shirts are available for collection at the take off point.
On Wednesday August 23, 2023, body leaves Military Hospital, Yaba for short funeral service at the RCCG Rhemachapel (Young Adult and Youth Church), 4, Righteousness Road, Canaanland, Redemption City of God, More, Ogun State.
Adeniyi Sanni is survived by aged grandmother, mother, brothers, wife and children.
Reacting to Sanni’s death, Senator Adeola (Yayi) had said that he was robbed and killed by men in uniform.
The chairman of Senate Committee on Appropriations stated that soldiers of the Nigeria Army operating checkpoints around Ikeja axis of Lagos State were responsible for the killing of his senior aide, Mr. Adeniyi Oluwatosin Sanni, in the early hours of Saturday August 5, 2023.
Recalled that the bereaved Senator had earlier stated that information available to him on the circumstances indicated that Mr. Sanni was stopped at a checking point around Ojodu- Berger Area of Lagos on his way to his home at Isheri by “security agents” who asked him to provide the documents of the car he was driving, which he did through a call to his wife who sent all the documents to his phone WhatsApp.
It was gathered that the wife called a while later and that the late Mr. Sanni told him soldiers were still checking the vehicle’s paper.
That was the last she heard from her husband and the body of Mr. Sanni, ridden with bullets was later discovered at Toyota Bus Stop area of Oshodi, close to a military barrack.
In an update about the investigation of the murder and armed robbery by the Nigerian Police Force, through a statement issued in Abuja, Senator Adeola stated that he is of the firm belief, based on available facts at the disposal of the Police that his aide was killed by a syndicate of soldiers operating under the newly deployed Commander of 9 Brigade, Ikeja Cantonment of the Nigeria Army, Brigadier General AM Adetuyi, through mounting of checkpoints and robbing of lone occupants of cars.
Senator Adeola, in the statement he personally signed, said top Police sources, familiar with the investigation, informed him that a similar brutal killing and armed robbery occurred around the same Ojodu- Berger late Thursday night of August 17, 2023 resulting in the killing of another Nigerian, whose body was discovered around Iyana- Ipaja after he was taken away by soldiers from the checkpoint.
According to information revealed by the senator in his statement, unknown to the soldiers, the occupant of the car they killed and took away his car was the second car in a convoy of two heading towards the same destination.
“The first car passed the soldiers checkpoint, but the second car was stopped to check his vehicle’s papers.
“On noticing the absence of the second car after a while, the occupant of the first car (name withheld) placed a call to his colleague in the second car who informed him that he was being taking to Iyana Ipaja by the soldiers at the checkpoint.
“That was the last he heard from him and his dead body was later discovered dumped on the road just like Mr. Sanni.
“The survivor in the first car reported the case to the Police and a pattern of armed robbery and killing in the area involving men in Army uniform was established,” the statement read.
Senator Adeola called on the 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 as a pattern of killings and armed robbery has been established against soldiers mounting late night checkpoints around Ikeja with similar unreported incidences in recent times around Ikeja, adding that “the Nigerian Army cannot be seen to cordon or harbour rogue elements robbing and killing innocent Nigerians within its fold.”
Till date, the black Toyota Camry of Mr. Sanni, his phones and other valuables are yet to be recovered.
