A man identified as Opeyemi Lawal has reportedly died after he was allegedly beaten by some officials at the Marina car park in the Lagos Island area of Lagos State.
It was gathered that the incident occurred on Sunday after Lawal was accused of stealing.
Details of the incident surfaced on Monday after a Facebook user, Sheriff Ojon, shared an account alleging that the victim was tortured by two car park officials before eventually giving up the ghost.
According to Ojon, the officials allegedly restrained the victim by tying his hands and legs while assaulting him, despite repeated pleas from Lawal and other residents who urged them to release him.
He wrote in part, “People begged him to untie Tope Lawal, but he refused until the man eventually collapsed.
“The young man kept pleading, saying he was about to die, but he ignored him and identified himself as Alhaji.
“An eyewitness also said when residents begged him, he insisted he would not untie Tope Lawal because the victim had insulted him two days earlier.”
Following the development, residents of the area reportedly stormed a nearby police division on Monday to protest the death.
In one of the protest videos seen by our correspondent, a woman who spoke in the footage said several traders and residents had appealed to the suspect to release the victim, but their pleas were ignored.
“All the women selling clothes were begging Alhaji to release him, but he refused. The man himself was pleading that he was dying, yet they still did not let him go,” the woman said.
Photographs of the victim’s lifeless body circulating on social media showed visible bruises on parts of his body.
Efforts to obtain a reaction from the spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, CSP Abimbola Adebisi, were unsuccessful as calls and messages sent to her on Monday had not been responded to as of the time this report was filed.
Cases of fatal assaults involving park officials and transport union members have been recorded in the past.
In a similar development, the Lagos State Police Command arrested a member of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in the state, Shamsideen Adio, on September 19, 2025, after a man allegedly died following an assault by the suspect.
Adio was also reported to have attacked a dispatch rider around the same period.