…Places parents on salary for life
Sanni’s kids
Senator Olamilekan Adeola aka Yayi, has adopted the children of his late aide, Adeniyi Sanni, who was killed by unknown soldiers at a check point in Lagos two weeks ago.
The news was disclosed by Kayode Odunaro, his media aide.
On Wednesday, family, friends and colleagues of slain Sanni, came together on to lay to rest the body of the deceased.
Sanni’s widow, children, relatives and other sympathisers shed tears as the remains of the late senator’s aide were displayed during the church service and interment at the Redeemed Camp vault, Mowe, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
Soldier at checkpoint killed my aide -Adeola
Sanni was murdered in the early hours of Saturday, August 5, 2023, in Lagos.
According to a statement by Odunaro, the late Sanni was stopped by security agents at a checkpoint at Ojodu, on his way to his home in Isheri, Lagos and he was asked to provide the documents of the car he was driving, which he did through his wife who sent all the documents to his phone via WhatsApp.
Odunaro said shortly after, the wife called his associates to say she could no longer reach her husband on the phone, necessitating the mobilisation of a search party.
She was said to have been contacted later by passersby through the next-of-kin phone number on her husband’s driver’s licence that his body was dumped around the Toyota Bus Stop in Oshodi, Lagos with gunshot wounds.
In a separate statement on Monday, Senator Adeola alleged that his aide “was killed by a syndicate of soldiers operating under the newly-deployed Commander of 9 Brigade, Ikeja Cantonment of the Nigeria Army, Brigadier General Nsikan Edet, through the mounting of checkpoints and robbing of lone occupants of cars.”
Speaking to our correspondent after the funeral service, Babatunde Raji-Label, who is the Director General of the Campaign Organisation of Senator Adeola, disclosed that the federal lawmaker had adopted the deceased’s children, Moraraoluwa, Oluwashindara and Oluwafeyidara.
He added that at the instance of the senator, the deceased’s associates had raised over N55m to take care of his aged grandmother, mother and immediate family members.
He also said Adeola had decided to place the deceased’s mother on a monthly salary for life.
Source:Punch
