A policeman, Sergeant Adeleke Ogunsola, has died in Sagamu
while opening a gate at the Asoludero residence of former Governor Gbenga
Daniel of Ogun State.
Ogunsola was one of the police officers posted to the
quarters of Gbenga Daniel for security purposes.
It was gathered that the policeman was opening the gate for
Daniel’s driver when he was reportedly involved in an accident that led to his
death on Saturday.
Our correspondent learnt that the gate being opened by Sgt Leke “bounced back” and he was allegedly knocked down by the former governor’s driver.
The young policeman was thereafter rushed to a hospital,
where he was said to have eventually died.
Police sources, who spoke with our correspondent, said their
colleague died in a mysterious way, accusing the Ogun State command of plots to
sweep the incident under the carpet.
The cops, who did not want to be mentioned over the fear of
retribution, were not happy that Ogunsola was turned to a gatekeeper instead of
the job he was posted to do in Daniel’s house.
According to them, an officer was once ‘sent out’ of the
building over his refusal to be reduced to a gatekeeper in police uniform.
“Why will an armed policeman be the one opening a gate? Why
will politicians turn the police into their slaves? When an officer refused to
be used as a gateman in the house, they called the DPO that he should change
him and he was redeployed. A policeman bearing arm will be asked to open the
gate; drivers, civilians and Daniel himself will be telling officers to open
the gate. If there is a gatekeeper in that house, this will not happen. This
was a man who left his home for work on Saturday morning, but he died in a
mysterious circumstance.
“It is so unfortunate that our bosses in this job are not
speaking the truth because of what they want to eat. Imagine, officers posted
to that Gbenga Daniel’s residence are paid N2,500 weekly. Now that guy has
died. What will he give to his family that will replicate the life of that
officer? We are tired of this job,” the police sources said.
The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola
Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident, saying, however, that it was an accident.
“That was an accident. He was opening the gate, the gate
bounced back and the driver mistakenly hit him with the gate. It’s an accident,
it can happen to anybody.”
Asked if a policeman should be the one opening a gate,
Oyeyemi replied: “Well, we don’t know the circumstances that led to him opening
the gate. We were not with him on duty. It may be that the gate is of two arms,
somebody will be open the first arm, another person opens the other. It’s
possible. If he’s not armed as of the time, he can help in opening the gate.
But we’re not there with him. We don’t know the circumstances that led to him
opening the gate. It is an accident. It can happen to anybody.”
Asked, the police image maker said the Ogun command has sent
a condolence message to the family of the deceased Sergeant Leke Ogunsola.
Contacted, a media aide to Gbenga Daniel, Steve Oliyide,
promised to get back to our reporter, but he is yet to do so over 24 hours
after.
Daniel governed Ogun State from 2003 to 2011 under the
platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Currently, the former governor, who is now a member of the
All Progressives Congress (APC), is eyeing the Ogun East senatorial seat, even
after he had announced his retirement from partisan politics.
In May 2021, two persons died inside Daniel’s Conference
Hotel in Abeokuta as a result of a fake gas cylinder used while servicing a
revolving door at the hotel.
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