Secondary School, Onikoko, Adigbe area of Abeokuta, the
Ogun State capital in the early hours of October 30, 2013,
Wednesday, when six naval rating officers pounced on one
of the civilian teachers in the school and beat him to stupor
over a minor argument between them.
The victim, Rasheed Ibrahim (pictured), could have been
killed by the naval officers without the quick intervention of
the Commandant .
Ibrahim, a Senior Food and Nutrition teacher in the school
since 1998, was ordered rushed by the Commandant first to
the School sickbay for first aid treatment from where he
was transferred to the FMC, Abeokuta.
According to P.M. News, the trouble started following an
argument between the victim and one of the rating officers
identified as Aliyu. This later snowballed into some
commotion in the school premises.
“I saw them arguing, the argument dragged for a short time,
I felt that it was a minor argument, so I did not intervene,”
an eyewitness told the reporters.
“It happened around 7.15 a.m. At that time I saw Aliyu
trying to drag Mr. Ibrahim out of his car and he succeeded.
Another officer, Oyerinde, later instructed Aliyu to beat him
up. That was how the whole issue started. In the process,
another Senior Officer, Shodiya, came out from his vehicle
and joined them, while other rating officers pounced on him
to the extent that they used their thick belts on him until it
got tore into pieces. All my attempts and that of others to
pacify them were rebuffed.
“This was not the first time it will happen, this is the sixth
time in two years that civilians working in the School here
have been brutalised and nothing has been done”, the
eyewitness explained.
When P.M. News tried to contact the Commandant of the
School, Commodore M A Olatunji, on the phone to comment
on the incident, he neither confirmed nor denied it, but
declined to give further comments, saying he need to get
clearance from the authority before he could make a
statement.
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