For None Payment Of House Rent Military Men Brutalized A Teacher

It been reported that two military officers attached to the Nigeria Army Ordinance Tailoring Factory in Yaba have brutalized a 40-year-old teacher in Lagos while trying to force him to vacate his apartment.


In the proces of the brutalization his household properties were destroyed. From information gathered, It was said that the men were acting on the orders of the landlady who resides in Canada, known and identified as Olawunmi, she wanted him to vacate her property for none payment of rent.

The man narrating his story said they left him when he agreed to leave the property, he told them to allow him to go and get a cab to move his things.

Here is his story as narrated:

 “I rented the apartment in October, 2016. I approached the house agent, Olalekan, who is the brother of the landlady. He asked me to pay N10,000 per month for rent. He said I should pay five months rent, pending when the house would be in good shape. There was no bathroom in the house; there’s only a toilet.

“When my rent expired in February 2017, Olalekan gave me the account number of his sister to pay a full rent into it. “When I spoke with her, she asked how long I had stayed in the house. When I told her five months, she said I must pay for the past five months before I would renew my rent. That was when I realised that her brother did not remit the N50,000 I earlier paid for the house.

 “On March 26, her lawyer tried to evict me forcefully and I reported the case at the Sabo Police Station. At the station, the lawyer discovered the truth and signed an undertaking to stop harassing me. I was asked to vacate the house in May 2017.” Marleth-Adeiza was attacked on Sunday, April 2 at about 9:30pm. The soldiers challenged his right to the apartment. One of the tenants was part of those who plotted the attack as he made sure the gate was locked and the poor teacher could not run out.

“They beat me till blood started gushing out from different parts of my body. While they were hitting me, one of them was speaking with the woman in Canada, telling her not to worry, that they would deal with me.

“I then begged their leader to allow me to go and get a taxi. A few minutes after walking down the road together, I saw a cab and we boarded it together. I instructed the driver to head straight for the Sabo Police Station. The soldier asked the man to drive towards the house. When the driver didn’t listen to him, he jumped out from the cab. I followed him. I held him and insisted that he should follow me to the station. Unfortunately, he wriggled his way out and fled,”

The case has also been reported at the soldiers’ base at Yaba. One of the men was identified as Corporal Shaba.

The regimental sergeant major pleaded him to drop the case so that the men would not be dismissed. Meanwhile, the poor teacher simply wants justice to be done as he felt his right was violated.