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An Ogun state landlord Samuel Adekoya, has landed in police cell for assaulting a set of 11-year old twin brothers, Taiwo Enoch Olishe and Kehinde Emmanuel Olishe.
The 65-year-old landlord is being questioned for child abuse offence and physical assault on the adolescent.
It was gathered that the man was arrested Friday in the Ijebu-Ode area of the state after the twins mother Gbenisola Olishe, reported the case at the Ijebu-Ode Police Area Command.
The woman had reported that, while she was away for a business, she was called on the phone by a good Samaritan informing her that her landlord had “tied her children’s hands and legs like goats, dragging them on the ground with the rope after he had beaten them with cable wire.”
Ogun State police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident, adding that the suspect also recorded the act in the process of carrying it out.
Oyeyemi quoted the mother as stating that “the twins sustained varying degrees of body injuries as a result of the wicked act meted on them by the landlord.”
According to him, the Police Area Commander in Ijebu-Ode, ACP Adeniyi Omosanyin, had immediately detailed some policemen to the scene where the two boys, “who were met tied down on both legs and hands, were rescued and taken to hospital for treatment.”
He said the suspect was also arrested and taken to the station.
“upon interrogation by the police, the 65-year-old suspect explained that he was informed that one of the twins excreted within the compound,” Oyeyemi said.
Oyeyemi added that when the landlord was asked to take policemen to where the excreta was, “he said the boy has already washed it off.”
“One of the twins is currently on admission at Ijebu Ode General Hospital due to injury he sustained while he was being dragged on the ground by the suspect,”
The Ogun state Commissioner of Police,Lanre Bankole has instructed that the case shold be properly follwed up and investigated,saying if found culpable the suspect should be arraigned in court .