The wife of 37 year old Seun Ayoade, pictured above has
accused an officer of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad
(SARS), Ondo State Police Command, Ojelabi Oladele, of
torturing her husband to death because she refused having
sex with him while she was married to the deceased.
Gbemisola in an interview with Sahara Reporters, said Seun
and officer Ojelabi Oladele were friends and that during her
marriage to Seun, Ojelabi had asked her for sex and she
turned him down. He persisted in his request and she
repeatedly turned him down on the grounds that she is
married and not just that, but that she is married to
someone who is his friend. Gbemisola alleged that this did
not go down well with Ojelabi who framed her ex-husband
up, got him arrested on October 12th and had him tortured
to death while in SARS detention. Ojelabi then dumped
Ayoade’s corpse at the morgue of the Ondo State Specialist
Hospital in Akure and lied to attendants that the deceased
died as a result of gunshot wound he sustained during a
duel with the police. Speaking to Sahara Reporters,
Gbemisola said
"I can't just imagine how a friend to my man [Mr. Ayoade]
will be asking me for sex. It is very disgusting. Many times
he [Mr. Oladele] asked me to go out with him, but I always
tell him ‘no' and that I can't do it. Because I turned down
his offer, he then decided to punish Mr Ayoade by calling
him a criminal, hence his arrest and detention at the SARS
office. And despite all this, Inspector Oladele is still
threatening to deal me just because I refused to allow him
to sleep with me. They have now killed my husband in their
detention center with cooked-up lies that he was an armed
robber who died during a gun duel with some police
officers,” Gbemisola said
Reacting to her claims, the spokesperson of the Ondo State
Police Command, Femi Joseph, said the case was already
being investigated and assured that the officer would face
the law if he is found culpable of the allegation.
"The Police Commissioner has ordered full-scale
investigations into the ongoing case. Although it is an
allegation, a panel has been set up, and investigations have
begun to unravel the truth of the matter. And if the culprit
[officer] is found guilty then he is going to face the
prosecution and full wrath of the law," he said
A human rights activist in the state, Adewumi Owolabi, had
already taken up the case and petitioned the police intending
to investigate his officers properly.
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