- His interment on Wednesday was graced family, friends and colleagues who came to pay their last respect.
- He was interred at the Redeemed Camp vault, Mowe, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway amid tears and despondency
Adeniyi Sanni, an aide to Senator Solomon Adeola, who was allegedly brutally murdered by soldiers has been buried.
His interment on Wednesday was graced by family, friends and colleagues who came to pay their last respect.
He was interred at the Redeemed Camp vault, Mowe, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway amid tears and despondency
Sanni’s widow, children, relatives and other sympathisers shed tears as the remains of the late senator’s aide were displayed during the church service.
Within Nigeria had reported how Sanni was murdered in the early hours of Saturday, August 5, 2023, in Lagos.
In a separate statement on Monday, Senator Adeola alleged that his aide “was killed by a syndicate of soldiers operating under the newly-deployed Commander of 9 Brigade, Ikeja Cantonment of the Nigeria Army, Brigadier General Nsikan Edet, through the mounting of checkpoints and robbing of lone occupants of cars.”
Speaking with newsmen after the funeral service, Babatunde Raji-Label, who is the Director General of the Campaign Organisation of Senator Adeola, disclosed that the federal lawmaker had takeover the welfare and upbringing of the deceased’s children, Moraraoluwa, Oluwashindara and Oluwafeyidara.
He added that at the instance of the senator, the deceased’s associates had raised over N55m to take care of his aged grandmother, mother and immediate family members.
He disclosed said Adeola had decided to place the deceased’s mother on a monthly salary for life.
Raji-Label said, “The children have also been adopted by the senator and he will take care of the children aside from the payment of their school fees.
“The day after Sanni died, the senator advised that we should raise funds for him because he has children, a mother, and a grandmother. We called on friends and associates and as of now, we have exceeded N55m.
“This is to clear the children’s school fees from their current classes through secondary school education so that the children will not have issues with their education. We also retained their current school which is Chrisland. The Senator has instructed that all the remaining funds will be passed to the wife and the mother of the deceased.
“He also promised to put the mother on a monthly salary until God calls her home. He will also be doing the same for his wife.”
Raji-Label expressed optimism that Sanni’s killers would be caught and justice served.
“They (the killers) should not sleep; they should look behind because God will catch up with them. He is going to get them and they are going to be prosecuted because his death was terrible. So, they have to pay. As they have done this, they should not sleep. They have murdered sleep so they cannot sleep,” he declared.
Adeola, in another statement issued by Odunaro on Wednesday, described his slain aide as irreplaceable.
“It is impossible for me to find a replacement for Niyi. He is my blood and a dedicated aide for almost two decades. I am greatly grieved by his unwarranted death. As a father figure to him, I had to stay away from his funeral as tradition demands,” the statement read.