Lagos vigilantes torture colleague to death over phone

On the premises of the Langbasa Health Centre in the Ajah area of Lagos State, a member of the Digbolukolu Local Security Outfit who went by the name simply “Ezekiel,” also known as “Baba Malu,” was tortured to death by his coworkers.

that Ezekiel was accused of stealing a phone by members of the Eti-Osa East Local Council Development Area-established security group at an event they attended in the community on Monday, June 26, 2023.

Olaide Taofik, the head of the security group, reportedly told members of the group to tie Ezekiel up and beat him in the security group’s guardroom on the Langbasa Health Centre grounds in an effort to discipline him.

After beating Ezekiel, members of the security group, according to a local source, allegedly abandoned and starved him for two days until he became unconscious and passed away on Wednesday.

According to the source, “Ezekiel saw a phone and kept it while members of the security outfit attended an event on Monday.” He had no idea that the phone’s battery was low, and when he went up to the leader to tell him, the phone was already dead.

That was the way he was said to have turned off the phone in an effort to use it for personal purposes. The group’s leader instructed Ezekiel’s coworkers to transport him to a guardroom attached to their office in Lamgbasa, the council’s primary health center. In the guardroom, they tied him and started torturing him. He begged to be freed, but he was prevented from leaving.

“After he was beaten, Ezekiel started to complain that he was weak, but despite his complaints, he was left unattended to,” police say of 89-year-old man who was tortured. He passed away later that day. After he passed on, the head of the gathering didn’t tell anybody until Thursday when he began to let individuals know that Ezekiel passed on from a characteristic reason. They were also detained by the police on the same Thursday.

The source went on to say that John Ogundare, Chairman of the LCDA, went to the police station on Friday to bail the suspects out, and that the police re-arrested them on

Our correspondent was informed by the administrative head of the security company, who went by the name Adedayo, that the suspects had been re-arrested by State Criminal Investigation Department officers in the Yaba region of the state.

Everything you stated regarding their actions is accurate. However I was not around when the episode occurred, it was the point at which I got back from the outing that I got to be aware of it,” Adedayo said.

The occurrence was confirmed by SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the state Police Public Relations Officer.

“The six suspects have been arrested and taken to the State Criminal Investigation Department,” he stated. “One person died.”