Police Killed And Buried My Brother In Shallow Grave In Lekki – Sister

Some policemen attached to Maroko police station in Lagos have been accused of killing 24-year old “Aondona Tavershima” and burying him in a shallow grave at Lekki beach.

The five suspected policemen are now currently in police custody. The victim,who is a motorcycle operator, was said to have refused to stop when he was accosted by the policemen who were said to be patroling at about 11am on the fateful day.

“On realizing that he was dead, the policemen picked his corpse and put it behind their patrol vehicle, a Toyota Hilux Van, and covered it with tyres.

They drove to the beach and buried him. We were the ones who alerted the family that their brother had been killed and buried,” the eyewitness disclosed.

Aondona’s elder sister, Linda, said she heared about the incident on Thursday, November 11, 2014.

“I knew that he left for Lekki with his friend and when he did not come back, I assumed that he had gone to spend time with his friends.

When I was told that my brother was killed, my people visited the scene and saw the grave.

We later discovered that the policemen were from Maroko police station and we went to lodge a complaint.

They promised to invite SCID Panti to exhume the body, as it was not their job. At night, they came and exhumed the body and kept it in a mortuary.

The DPO later called me and requested that they would pay us N10 million to end the matter.

They said we should go home and think about it and get back to them,” she said. Dominic David,who is an in-law to the deceased claimed that he was told that policemen were trying to arrest Aondona and he refused to stop.

“They opened fire on him and shot him. And even when he fell down, they still continued to shoot.They wanted to abandon the corpse, but the owner of the house near where he was killed insisted that they must carry the corpse away.”

“They took his body to Lekki beach and buried him in a grave and covered the burial site with leaves and old carton.

Unfortunately, some of the eyewithnesses knew us very well and alerted us.

They promised that the matter was going to be investigated but till date, they have not done anything about it.”

Barrister Mindia Chibok,the lawyer representing the family, said the family intends to legally seek redress on the injustice meted out to the victim.