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Nigeria twitter is currently trending #justiceForSeyiAkinde after a young man named Seyi Akinade took his own life after alleged maltreatment by the operatives of Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS).

A Twitter user who poses as the deceased step brother lamented about the loss of his brother blaming himself for missing the clues the deceased left as to what he was going through.

He alleged that his brother committed suicide out of depression from the maltreatment that was meted out to him by SARS officials.

“My younger brother died earlier this morning and I can’t help beating myself up for missing the clues he left as to what he was going through.

“My theory is that he committed suicide out of depression based on the way SARS officials treated him.

Seyi’s elder brother, sharing screenshots of the deceased tweets Yesterday’s morning, tweeted:

“His post yesterday morning and Some of the hints he has been leaving on twitter this past week.
It’s definitely a crime to be Nigerian.
Nigeria won’t rest until it takes your life!!

“I don’t even know how to feel right now, I just feel empty.”

The brother also cried out that his late brother was also learning drawing from him and was into forex trading.

“He was learning how to draw from me… Tho he was in school, he ran a forex trading Enterprise. Many people can attest to the fact that seyi is not a Yahoo boy.

“He did legit, he always wanted to be legit and Nigeria killed him for it. Up Nigeria! You guys have done it again!”

According to Seyi in a tweet 5 days before he took his life, he was having recurring nightmares and waking up with chest pain after his experience with SARS on the 2nd of February, 2020.

He said he was in his hostel working on his post data slides for the next day’s presentation when the SARS operatives came and carried him. This, he said happened in the night by 10pm.

In a bid to understand why they were being arrested, he kept asking questions and in return was threatened that he will be killed if he did not shut his mouth. Himself and 16 others were handcuffed and whisked away like armed robbers.
They were taken to Ibora Police station. Upon getting to the station, he made efforts to explain how he had a presentation the next day and an open forex trade on his trading platform.

He was told he will pay N200,000 as bail. All his efforts to close the trade at least, proved abortive. The deceased said that he received a slap from one of the SARS operative for requesting for his phone.

The 17 of them arrested that night slept in the cell. According to Seyi, they were paraded like thieves even when he did not have anything incriminating on his mobile phone. The SARS officials slapping him, asking him to admit he was a fraudster.

He missed his project presentation eventually and also lost about $20,000 dollars for not closing his open forex trade. He said the money lost via the trading belonged to investors.

See below some of Seyi’s tweets (including his story) before he passed on.

His last tweet on the 21st of April,2020 before he too his life reads; “I guess its goodbye now… no one heard my cry for justice and this had to happen haha…bye world.”

1 COMMENT

  1. So sorry beloved, I had that experience too when they nearly kill my blood brother. Your blood will get Justice for the tears you shedded and your broken heart before your departure from this world, though you never made the best choice of options. I felt so heart broken , I promise you that any day I will emerge as President or have federal power, part of my inuguration speech will be dissolution of SARS. Rest in peace to your shattered 💔

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