Tuesday, June 2, 2026 - A man, identified simply as Success, has reportedly died from injuries sustained after being tortured by some operatives of an Ogun State security outfit, So-Safe Corps, along Coca-Cola Road, in the Oju-Ore area of the state.
According to Facebook post by Ota Gossip that the incident
occurred after an altercation between Success and his mother on Saturday.
The page disclosed that Success’s mother had reported the
issue to the So-Safe officials, who took him into custody.
The post added that rather than the security officers
handing over Success to the police, they allegedly took him to an uncompleted
building and subjected him to torture.
The post read, “According to reports circulating within the
community, the incident began after a misunderstanding between Success, his
mother, and his younger brother at their residence. During the altercation,
Success reportedly sustained a head injury and was seen bleeding.
“After the mother called, the So-Safe security operatives
were invited to intervene. According to eyewitness accounts and videos
circulating online, the young man was later taken away from the area.
“However, allegations emerging from the community claim that
instead of being taken into official custody, he was allegedly taken to an
abandoned building in the Oju Ore axis, where he was subjected to physical
assault.”
Another Facebook user, Temitope Adeniyi, disclosed that the
security officers allegedly beat Success to death.
“He fought with his mother, so his mother reported him to
the So-Safe. The next thing, they carried him to an uncompleted building and
beat him to death,” Adeniyi wrote.
Confirming the incident in a
telephone conversation with our correspondent on Monday, the spokesperson for
the So-Safe Corps, Adegunwa Adegbuyi, said the officers have been handed over
to the police.
Adegbuyi, while condemning the
actions of the officers, said that they acted outside the standard operating
procedures of the outfit.
“The mother called us to intervene, and some of our ad-hoc
staff went. They are supposed to revert, but unfortunately, they took the law
into their own hands.
“Instantly, when the case came up, we had to hand them over
to the Nigerian Police Force because the Commandant does not condone anything
that has to do with human rights abuse.
“We handed over the first culprit, and after some hours, we
handed over the second culprit to the police for necessary prosecution. We are
working on synergy with the police to ensure that justice is done,” Adegbuyi
said.
He concluded that the So-Safe Commander, Soji Ganzalo, had
consistently warned officers of the outfit against abuse of human rights and
interference in civil matters.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson for the Ogun State Police
Command, Babaseyi Oluseyi, has yet to respond to an enquiry sent to him on the
matter as of the time of filing this report.
PUNCH Metro reported on Saturday that the Imo State Police
Command arrested three students of the Federal University of Technology,
Owerri, Imo State, in connection with the alleged murder of a 21-year-old
undergraduate, Chinedu Christogonus.
The deceased, a 100-level student of cybersecurity, was
reportedly beaten to death on Saturday by members of the university’s Man O’
War organisation for allegedly stealing N13,500.
The incident had triggered unrest in the university as
students went on the rampage, burning buildings and destroying other property
on the campus.
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