“They Threatened to Kill Us in Osun Forest”: Deported Indigenes Narrate Sad Ordeal
- The conversation surrounding the forceful evacuation of some people believed to be indigenes of Osun state in Lagos has continued to generate reactions
- In a recent development, some of the victims allegedly picked by the Lagos task force made a jaw-dropping revelation regarding their ordeal in the hands of government officials
- The victims alleged that they were arrested and found themselves in Osun state, and Babajide Sanwo-Olu has vowed to investigate the trending matter
Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has over two years of experience covering political parties and movements.
A new report has it that some victims have narrated how the officials of the Lagos state task force threatened to kill them in Osun Forest.
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This is after they were allegedly arrested in the Marina area of the state and later dumped in a forest in Ilesha, Osun state, on Saturday, May 4.
Recall that the Lagos state government led by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Wednesday, May 1, said it discovered 86 partitioned rooms under the Dolphin Estate Bridge, Ikoyi, on Lagos Island and made some arrests.
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The government, therefore, vowed to clamp down on miscreants across the state.
Tokunbo Wahab, Lagos state‘s commissioner for environment and water resources, revealed this on Wednesday in a post accompanied by a video he shared on his X page.
Victims allege threat to life by Lagos task force
Speaking on the development, the victims claimed they escaped from the Ilesha forest in Osun state, lamenting that they were arrested without proper investigation.
In an interview with The Punch on Sunday, May 5, one of the victims, a phone accessories seller in the Marina area of Lagos, Miracle Chukwu, claimed they found themselves in Osun, where the officials threatened to kill them if they refused to cooperate with them.
“I was coming back from where I was selling phone accessories at the CMS area around 11 a.m., so some task force officials and police officers stopped me and forced me into their Black Maria vehicle. They beat me up and collected my bag,” Chukwu narrated.
Another victim disclosed that they were numbering about 500, including people living with disabilities, jam-packed in cramped conditions inside the chartered bus allegedly provided by the state government to the forest.
Arius Awodeji, a job seeker and a Lagos resident, disclosed that they were deceived into thinking they were heading to Ikeja to see the governor but surprisingly found themselves in the forest.
“They instructed everyone to alight and run into the bush without looking back,” Awodeji said.
Peter Obi reacts to alleged ‘deportation’ of Osun youths
Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that Peter Obi, the flagbearer of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 presidential election, condemned the alleged deportation of Osun indigenes from Lagos state.
Obi, in a series of posts shared on his X account on Monday, May 6, described the alleged deportation as a “violation of citizens’ rights”.
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