Nigerian Army apologizes to family of motorcyclist pounded the life out of by soldier

The Nigerian Army on Tuesday apologized to the group of Abubakar Alhaji, a business motorcyclist who was pounded the life out of by a sergeant, Taiwo Owoeye, a warrior in Lagos.

NAIJA EXPOSEMILL detailed how the casualty's sibling who saw the episode described it to the presidential board examining rights manhandle by the military.

"The Nigerian Army has confined Sgt. Owoeye for kill, we locate the issue inexcusable and condemnable," the Nigerian Army's insight, Bola Oyebanji, said on Tuesday.

"Be that as it may, this is a solitary demonstration which demonstrated that the sergeant was individually.

"We apologize and identify with the group of the perished," Mr. Oyebanji said as detailed by the News Agency of Nigeria.

The board, right now sitting in the South-west, is to sit in the six geo-political zones and the Federal Capital Territory from September 11 to November 3.

The leader of the board, Justice Biobel Goodwill likewise, giving his sympathies, told the sibling of the perished "expressions of remorse to you and your family for the passing of your sibling".

Mr. Generosity in the wake of offering the expression of remorse, revealed to Lucas Koyejo, an advice from the National Human Rights Commission to catch up with the military trial of Mr. Owoeye to guarantee that equity is done and to liaise with the casualty's family.

Prior, Mr. Alhaji's sibling, Salihu Mojahid, in his declaration before the board, shed light on the arrangement of occasions prompting his sibling's demise.

Mr. Mojahid stated: "On February 27, my sibling called Abubakar Alhaji, a business motorcyclist, took a traveler to Maroko Roundabout adjacent to Myhoung Barracks, Yaba, Lagos.

"He stopped at the back of a vehicle and obscure to him somebody was in the vehicle, the individual in the vehicle turned around and observers yelled that a business motorcyclist is behind him.

"My sibling thumped on the auto to alarm the proprietor that he stopped behind him, the proprietor of the auto turned out and he was Sgt. Taiwo Owoeye.

"Owoeye who was in full military uniform, slapped my sibling twice and after he tumbled down, and he began kicking my sibling a few times in his stomach while he was on the ground.

"Spectators took a stab at apologizing to him however he declined to hear them out till my sibling fell oblivious.

"At the point when my sibling wound up noticeably oblivious, he needed to leave and the observers said 'do you not see the condition of the individual you have thumped?

"Sgt. Owoeye let them know 'let him bite the dust, regardless of the possibility that he bites the dust, nothing will happen'.

"Kindred business motorcyclists and military men took him to a doctor's facility in the sleeping enclosure , he was spewing blood till the following day.

"My sibling kicked the bucket on February 28 and the Commandant requested the capture of Sergeant Owoeye."

Mr. Mojahid guaranteed that his sibling's carcass was not discharged to the family until May 25 which was four months after the episode.

"Whenever we approached the military for his cadaver, they said that they expected to do a dissection, till now we have not gotten a post-mortem examination result."

The board had amid its procedures rejected an appeal to by Mohammed Okorie who was blamed for treachery, unlawful ownership of guns and planning to explode a presidential flying machine with a few associates in 2004.

"I was wrongfully blamed for being a rocket merchant. 76 military officers were captured when I was likewise captured.

"A military plane was sent from Nigeria to Ghana, Lome and even Ivory Coast regarding the charges," Mr. Okorie asserted.

Mr. Okorie through his legal counselor, Charles Nzeagbuna, tested his imprisonment by the military, expressing that he was subjected to uncaring treatment and torment amid the four years he was in guardianship.

Be that as it may, the Army, debated Mr. Okorie's cases taking note of that he was captured on the requests of the State Security Service and not the military and an examination of his case was directed by an extraordinary board made by the central government.

Rejecting the request, Justice Georgewill said Mr. Okorie's request of did not fall inside the terms of reference of the board.

"The circumstance weaved around this board does not make a difference to the charges of conspiracy and lawful offense.

"This circumstance as a general rule does not fall inside the five terms of reference which is confined to struggle and rebellion situations.

"Captures concerning a lawful offense does not fall under the purview of this board; this board does not have the ward to engage this case," he dominated.

The board additionally rejected the appeal to of Anthony Azuibike in light of the fact that his request of did not likewise fall inside its terms of reference.

Mr. Azuibike in his appeal to against the Nigerian Military asserted that they unlawfully ousted him from a land he had purchased from an armed force Commandant.