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By: Manoah Kikekon
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| Moses Amosu and Kamoru Fasasi |
A landlord, Kamoru Fasasi (Ajana), and two others knows as Rosko and Arabanbi, in Asipa, Badagry, Lagos State, have damaged the hands of a 13-year-old boy, Moses Amosu, after two days of brutality, and his mother, Olorunwa Yenukunme, locked him in the house for three weeks without treatment. Moses to undergo three surgeries or amputation.
Mr. Kamoru Fasasi has tortured Moses Amosu for two days, sometimes in November 2023, after his mother said he had been disobedient. Moses was tied and hanged on the tree for several hours, where he sustained serious injuries and bone fractures on both arms. After the torture, his mother kept him in the room for 3 weeks until he escaped on December 24, 2023, to his grandmother's house.
Moses' parents, Sawanu Amosu, the father, and Olorunwa Yenukunme, the mother, have been separated for many years. The father claimed the mother had forcefully taken Moses from him.
Speaking with Ruth Amosu, the aunt, she said "on December 24th, 2023, around 11am my mother called that i need to see the condition of my brother's son. By the time I saw the boy on the 25th, I wept."
Moses said, "When I insisted that I am going to my father, my mother handed me over to our landlord for beating. There were three that beat me: Kamoru Fasasi, Rosko, and Arabanbi. They tied me and hanged me to the tree after. The first day beaten, they took me inside, covered me with cloth and nylon, and placed stones on it so that I wouldn't escape, and the beating continued the second day as they were pouring dry gin on me. My mother took me to a nurse after few days, who gave me injections. As the hand began to swell, the nurse then decided to cut it open. My mother now took me home and locked me inside the room until my hand began to rust. I escaped the day my mother forgot to lock the door.
Olorunwa Yenukunme, the mother of Moses Amosu, said, "Moses does not stay at home; he leaves the house for days or weeks. I will have to search for him in the neighborhood before he comes home. Ajana has disciplined him several times. Before this incident happened, he ran away from home twice. I then handed him over for torture, he was tied up and beaten, where he sustained injuries and I took him to nurse for treatment, but the wound did not heal, so I was scared of what people would say, so I kept him inside the house until he escaped."
On that 25th, the case was reported to Badagry police station. "Kamoru Fasasi was released that same day from police custody, and that was all the Badagry police station did. But several calls kept coming in, threatening me and my brother that we needed to leave the case. We then reported the case again to Area K police station," Ruth said.
"The doctor has said the boy will go through three surgeries, or else his hands will be amputated and since then, we have been spending money with no support. Currently, we have spent over N850,000 on the treatment so far, and now the second surgery is supposed to be carried out, but we don't have money. We are pleading for the support of Nigerians to help this boy and also get justice for him. We still need 400,000 to carry out the second surgery; we don't know the cost of the third surgery, and the perpetrators did not give a dime; even the mother has not come to visit the boy." Ruth added.
All attempts to speak with Kamoru Fasasi were not successful as he declined all requests of the our journalist to speak with him. Various sources confirm that Kamoru Fasasi has been notorious in the community making it difficult for residents to leave in peace.