Police killed and buried my brother in shallowgrave in Lekki - Sister

Some policemen attached to Maroko police
station in Lagos are being accused of killing
24-year old Aondona Tavershima and burying
him in a shallow grave at Lekki beach.
Sunday Sun reports
Five of the suspected policemen are now cur­
rently in police detention. The victim, a
motorcycle operator, was alleged to have
refused to stop when he was accosted by the
policemen who were said to be on patrol at
about 11am on the fateful day.
"On realizing that he was dead, the police­
men picked his corpse and put it behind their
patrol vehicle, a Toyota Hilux Van, and
covered it with tyres. They drove to the beach
and buried him. We were the ones who
alerted the family that their brother had been
killed and buried,” the eyewitness disclosed.
Narrating the incident to Sunday Sun on
phone, Aondona’s elder sister, Linda, said she
got to know about the incident on Thursday,
November 11, 2014. “I knew that he left for
Lekki with his friend and when he did not
come back, I assumed that he had gone to
spend time with his friends. When I was told
that my brother was killed, my people visited
the scene and saw the grave. We later discov­
ered that the policemen were from Maroko
police station and we went to lodge a com­
plaint. They promised to invite SCID Panti to
exhume the body, as it was not their job. At
night, they came and exhumed the body and
kept it in a mortuary. The DPO later called me
and requested that they would pay us N10 mil­
lion to end the matter. They said we should
go home and think about it and get back to
them,” Linda alleged.
Similarly, an in-law to the deceased, Dominic
David, claimed that he was told that
policemen were trying to arrest Aondona and
he refused to stop. “They opened fire on him
and shot him.
And even when he fell down, they still
continued to shoot.
Initially, they wanted to abandon the corpse,
but the owner of the house near where he was
killed insisted that they must carry the corpse
away.”
“They took his body to Lekki beach and buried
him in a grave and covered the burial site with
leaves and old carton. Unfortunately, some of
the people who witnessed the crime knew us
very well and alerted us. They promised that
Panti was going to investigate the matter but
up till date, they have not done anything
about it.”
The lawyer representing the family, Barrister
Mindia Chibok, said the family intends to
legally seek redress on the injustice meted out
to the victim. We expect that by now the
matter should have been transferred to an ap­
propriate authority and not the same police
station where the crime was committed. We
hope that the police authority will order a
thorough investigation and ensure that the
suspects, including those who are currently at
large be arrested and made to face the wrath
of the law.
I gathered that six of the suspects are current­
ly at large while five others are in police
custody.
Confirming the incident, Lagos Police com­
mand spokesman, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, said
that as soon as the Commissioner of Police
for Lagos State got wind of the incident, he
ordered an immediate arrest of the suspected
policemen who were alleged to have
participated in the killing.
“Five policemen are currently being detained,
while State Criminal Investigation Department,
Panti, has since commenced an investigation.
If found guilty, the officers will be made to face
the wrath of the law,” Nwosu said.
Source: Sunnews Online