Soldier Dies After Being Locked Up By Nigerian Army In Underground Cell Since 2019
Lance Corporal Kazeem Aribido, a Nigerian Army soldier deployed to the 81 Battalion, 2 Division, died in a detention center in Ibadan, Oyo State.
According to a military source, the young man was arrested after returning from a joint operation in Zamfara State for alleged illicit ammunition possession.
Despite his asthmatic condition, Aribido had been arrested in Ibadan in 2019 and imprisoned in an underground cell in Abuja, according to the source.
Aribido’s wife, he claims, was the one who provided inhalers to her husband because the military was inconsistent in doing so.
Despite being detained since 2019, the source claims that Aribido was only recently arraigned before a military court, and that he died on Monday, August 23, just as he was about to begin his defence.
He said, “Lance Corporal Kazeem Aribido was serving in Ibadan but posted to Zamfara for operation in 2019 because of the crisis in the state but he was sick throughout the period he spent in Zamfara. Due to this sickness, he was now withdrawn back to Ibadan from Zamfara.
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“They went to his house in Ibadan in the barracks, picked him up since August 2019 and took him to an underground cell in Abuja. He had a very serious Asthma. They took him to a guard room, locked him there with no consideration for his health; no mat, nothing, no blanket.
“From that time till May 9, 2021, they took Aribido from Abuja guardroom and took him back to Ibadan guard room until his death on Monday. He has a wife, young woman and a child.
“However, the military just started his court martial just about a month or two months ago. He was supposed to be in court on Monday; he was supposed to enter his defence.
“The court told his lawyer to bring no case submission, and when he brought it, it was not authorised and they said he should enter his defence, he was to open his defence yesterday before this incident.
“The wife, a very young woman has really suffered. When she travelled all the way to Abuja to see her husband, they hardly allowed her to see her husband. She has been the one taking inhaler to him in detention. In six months, I don’t think the army gave him up to two inhalers.”
