The commercial motorcyclist said the Amotekun men shot him at Araromi area of Akure, the Ondo State capital, on 9 August 2021.
after losing his leg to a gunshot injury inflicted on by the officers of the state’s security network agency code-named Amotekun.
Some of the photographs also showed him standing on his right leg, his body decked in an orange polo shirt and propped up by his crutches, while the stump of the amputated leg was hidden under his shorts. Sued along with Ondo State government as co-defendants are the state’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice and the State Security Network Agency .The married man and father of two boys – nine-year-old Samuel and six-year-old Oluwadarasimi – said the attack on him by the Amotekun officers between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. of the fateful day in Akure was unprovoked.
The men then dragged him into the back of their van and drove him to the Amotekun Headquarters at Alagbaka, Mr Oluwasegun said.At their office, according to the claimant, he was abandoned outside uncared for, until a senior officer came out and directed that he be taken to the outfit’s medical unit.At the Amotekun’s medical unit, he said, nurses only bandaged the gunshot injury and referred him to the Federal Medical Centre , Owo, “for immediate treatment of the leg.
His family members, who had searched for him for days before finding him, had to move him to the Police Clinic in Alagbaka in Akure. But the clinic rejected him because they could not provide the initial deposit of N550,000 demanded.He was only able to continue his medical treatment in September when “a good Samaritan” got him admitted at Teebah Medical Center, a private hospital, in Akure, where doctors advised that “the only option was to amputate the leg to keep the decay from spreading”.
He said the government claimed that Mr Oluwasegun “was apprehended by their officers while on trail of a syndicate of criminals engaging in kidnapping and armed robbery”.
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