According to reports and tweets from David Ekpo, a staff of Ecobank,
Babatunde Oke was allegedly killed in police custody yesterday. Tunde
(pictured above), who worked at the Ladipo Oluwole, Ogba branch of the
bank, had been accused of fraud and handed over to the police.
Davido Ekpo claims Tunde died after severe torture by the police. He
leaves behind a wife and two children, a 2 year old and a 5-month old.
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This is d story and details I
ReplyDeletegathered so far: ( sources:his
younger brother and an inlarw
to his widow)
Tunde was accused of a missing
1.2million from eco bank, ladipo
where he worked sometime late
last year. He was asked to refund
the money amount.
According to Tunde den
someone posted d money with
his system. However Tunde made
effort to repay d money, his
accouny was put on hold and
that of his wife who works with
the bank was also put on hold.
(they could no longer make
withdrawals from their acct).
Tunde was able to to repay 600k
before d events that led to his
arrest.
On sunday d 16th of feb, Tunde
had a fire accident in his
residence, his generator
exploded, leaving burns in his
hands and legs. Tunde went with
d burns to the office on monday
to show his branch manager and
explain d fact that he wont be
able to stay at work for the day.
On tuesday 18th feb Tunde was
on his way to clinic and some
persons ecobank called his wife
to inform her that they were
coming to arrest her at her
branch since d husband has
absconded. She quickly placed a
call to her husband to inform him
and her husband reported
immediately to work abandoning
his treatment due to the threat.
Tunde was arrested at work on
Tuesday and taken to the
divisional headquarters at Ikoyi
where he was locked up for 3
days. All efforts to get his bail
went futile as the police insisted
that based on d instruction of
the bank, they must get the
outstanding.
His lawyer was asked to bring 1
million and he told dem bail was
free and he cant raise such. In
the course of arguement the
police escalated d debt to 2.4
million and the lawyer reminded
them he only had an outstanding
of 600k.
Tunde was tortured as usual by
the police in the cell and on
thursday morning his mother
inlaw and brother visited the
station, but was again urged by
d police to quickly go and get
money. They went to use the atm
and on their way back, they saw
an ambulance and wen they
peeped into it, they saw Tunde's
cloths drenched in blood, his
mouth foaming and it was also
discovered later that a coke
bottle cover was placed in his
pocket. The police started
alleging poison that he took a
poisonous coke.
Now am wondering, poison from
where? This is the story so far.
We are waiting for autopsy
results but the media must be at
alert... the process must b
corruption free. Eco bank and the
NPF will be doing all they can to
bribe as many as possible....any
one who takes bribe on this
issue will die a miserable death
in Jesus name.