A horrifying video has appeared online showing a 73-year-old man, Chief Abraham Areola, being ridiculed and abused by the traditional ruler of Orile Ifo in Ogun State, Oba Semiu Ogunjobi.
The two-minute video shows one of the monarch’s aides grabbing the elderly man’s cap as he knelt, while another strikes him from behind, despite his polite attempts to ask what he had done wrong.
The traditional king was heard criticising and throwing abuses at the elderly guy, accusing him of violating his rulership.
The traditional ruler said, “You are a conspirator and a betrayer. Your children will not succeed. It will never be well with you, your wife, and your children.
“You will continue to live in abject poverty. You will die, and you will turn blind. Whoever thinks he is courageous enough should come out to face me. The entire Ifo land belongs to me.”
“I will send you to prison. I own the entire Nigeria Police Force. I will send you to prison. Even if you die, we shall bury you, and nothing will happen, and nobody will even know,” the traditional ruler threatened.
In an interview with The PUNCH, the victim claimed that the traditional ruler threatened him with death despite being uninformed of his purported transgression.
In a separate interview with PUNCH Metro on Sunday, the monarch denied that he was the one shown demeaning the old man.
