For several months, the militants had monitored the movements of the soldiers in Bonta before finally reaching an agreement to kill them, witnesses said.
Peter Nwacho, a security guard employed by the management of Gloryland Estate in Egbe Idimu area of Lagos state was assaulted by a group of soldiers invited into the estate by one Captain Adebayo Omotayo.
Nwacho said he was on his way to his duty post on Saturday, February 6, 2021, when five soldiers descended on him.
Narrating the incident to
Pulse, the security guard said Omotayo ordered his colleagues to beat him up because he did not allow one Calabar man to gain access into the estate to meet his wife around 9 pm in compliance with the estate rules.
He also said he stopped the Calabar man, who came on a bike from entering the estate because he was not wearing the jacket the estate management gave out to motorcycle operators in the area.