Residents of a section of Majidun, along
the Ikorodu Road, Lagos have raised the alarm, alleging that Naval
personnel have taken over their community and enforcing the law as if
the community is in a state of emergency.
According to residents,
the naval personnel (stationed there to prevent the activities of oil
thieves) ejected residents from a street and took over their.....
houses.
However when Punch correspondents visited the area
last Wednesday, Chief Owoyele Street close to the creek running through
the community, was barricaded with a metal bar, which Punch correspondents learnt was installed by the naval personnel, keeping
residents away from their homes since November 2014. The street taken
over by the naval personnel is estimated to have nothing less than 70
houses. Our correspondents saw an armoured tank stationed at the
entrance of the street.
Meanwhile, the residents alleged that
some young women – married and unmarried – have been raped by the naval
personnel, who also allegedly tortured residents at will.
In order to verify the rape claim, Punch
correspondents were taken to the home of 48-year-old Obioma Okampu, an
Ebonyi State indigene. A large obituary posted on the wall showed that
Okampu died on August 10, 2015.
A resident, who pleaded anonymity, explained that
one of the naval personnel was raping Okampu’s wife on August 10, 2015,
when the deceased was attracted by his wife’s screams.
“He saw what was happening to his wife
but immediately the naval personnel saw him, they tried to catch him and
he ran. As he tried to cross the BRT lane on Ikorodu Road while running
away, he was hit by a coming rapid transit bus and he died on the
spot,” the source said.
It was learnt that Naval authorities paid for his corpse to be taken for burial in Ebonyi State.
Okampu’s one room apartment was under lock and key when Punch correspondent visited the house.
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