On Thursday, July 9, Kayode Atanda and Adeyemi Ajayi were shot by a police patrol team at Iwo Road area of Ibadan.
This led to the Death of Adeyemi while Kayode, who is still alive, sustained bullet injuries.
However, Kayode’s wife, Tosin, in an interview with PUNCH newspapers, revealed that the police had abandoned her husband in the hospital after shooting him.
Narrating how the incident occurred, she said: “On that day, I was on the way from my brother’ s place and different people were calling me to ask after my husband. They had heard of the incident but I didn’ t suspect that something went wrong . He later called to tell me that he was at UCH.
“He said he was shot and that Yemi has already died. On getting to UCH, I saw a female police officer who said I should take it up from that stage. I asked her what she meant by that, but the doctor then explained that the female police officer was among those who brought him to the hospital.
“The deputy commissioner of police was said to have paid N15, 500 to start the treatment . As I heard , a senior police officer was also in the traffic at Iwo Road area where the incident happened.I called my family and my husband’s family and that is how we have been battling with the matter ever since.
“We were told by some doctors that he was going to undergo a surgery. We thought the surgery would be fast but he has since been subjected to series of tests . According to the results of the tests , he had lost so much blood.
“The doctors said he had lost the property that makes the blood to clot and therefore it was not advisable to take him to the theatre without being adequately prepared as he would be bleeding so much without that . They explained that they had to stabilise those cells before the session would be carried out . We got three pants of blood on Thursday . They advised us to look for donors with matching blood type.”
Speaking on how the police abandoned him, she said, “Now , since the time the female police officer left UCH , I have not set my eyes on any police officer. There was no one that alleged that my husband and the man who was killed had stolen anything.
“On day of the incident while we were talking in front of the Accident and Emergency unit at UCH, the doctor on duty called to advise me to take it easy with the police so that they would not falsely accuse my husband .
” As I was wondering aloud, a man walked up to me and said he was a deputy commissioner of police . He said, ‘I am not here because of this incident . I just brought my mother here now.’ So , he overheard us as we talked.
“He assured me that those policemen would not go unpunished . He gave me his number and I saved it. He said if there was anything , I should feel free to call him . Shortly after he left, soaeone came up to me to say that the man was lying and that he was an undercover agent.”
