Ogun Landlord Arrested For Assault, Battery Of 11-Year-Old Twins

A landlord in Ogun State has enmeshed himself in an alleged criminal act of abuse and physical molestation of underaged twin brothers, which has led to the hospitalisation of one of the victims.

The 65-year-old suspect, Samuel Adekoya, police said, tied the 11-year-old twin brothers on both hands and legs, while dragging them on the ground, for allegedly defecating inappropriately in the compound.

The suspect was also reported and resorted to making a video recording of the scenario, which is readily available to the police as a vital exhibit to facilitate his prosecution.

Adekoya's arrest on Friday, April 15, 2022, according to the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, was a sequel to a complaint lodged by the victim's other at the Ijebu-Ode Police Area Command.

The complainant, Gbenisola Olathe, reported that "while she was away on a business trip, she received a phone call from a good Samaritan to the effect that her twins, Taiwo Enoch Olishe and Kehinde Emmanuel Olishe were being maltreated by the said cruel landlord.

"Having first beaten them with a cable wire, he then tied them on both hands and legs like goats and, thereafter, dragged them on the ground," distraught Olishe recounted.

She added that the victims sustained a varying degree of body injuries as a result of the wicked act meted on them.

"Upon the report, the Area Commander, ACP Adeniyi Omosanyin, detailed some policemen to the scene, where the two boys were rescued and taken to hospital for treatment, while the landlord was promptly arrested".

"On interrogation, the suspect justified his action by saying that one of the twins excreted within the compound, despite his warning that the compound must be kept clean at all times. When asked to take the policemen to the spot the excreta was, he said the boys had already washed it.

"One of the twins is currently on admission at the Ijebu Ode General Hospital, due to injury sustained in the course of being dragged on the ground by the suspect," the statement added.

Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has ordered that the case be thoroughly investigated and that the suspect is arraigned in court as soon as the investigation was concluded.