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.
PM News
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