Imo State: How These Young Men Suffered Brutal Beatings And Were Extorted Of ₦357,000 By Police Officers. 🚨
According To Their Account, The Young Men Were On Their Way To Buy Fuel When They Were Stopped By Police Officers. They Say The Officers Searched Them And Found Nothing Illegal, But Still Took Them Away And Demanded Money For Their Release. When They Questioned Why They Should Pay When They Had Committed No Crime, They Were Be@ten And Taken To The State CID Anti-Cultism Unit. They Further Revealed That They Were Beaten Again, Sustained Serious Injuries And Were Forced To Write Statements Saying That They Were Cultists. They Say They Were Forced To Pay a Total Of ₦357,000 Before They Could Be Released.
Today, *Lawyers for Civil Liberties* filed a Freedom of Information application before the *Attorney-General of Federation* and the *Minister of Solid Minerals Development*, requesting for details of the recent Nigeria - United States of America's 700 billion dollar Critical Minerals Framework Agreement / Memorandum of Understanding.
This Young Man Reached Out To Me That He And His Friend Were Extorted Of ₦82,000 By Officers Attached To The CPS In Onitsha.
According To Him, They Were Travelling From Asaba When The Officers Stopped The Public Bus They Were In, Brought Them Down And Searched Them. He Says The Officers Also Went Through Their Phones But Found Nothing Incriminating, Yet Insisted On Taking Them To Central Police Station (CPS) In Onitsha. He Said That They Were Handcuffed, Forced Into a White Bus And Taken To The Station, Where They Met Several Other Young Men Illegally Detained. According To His Account, The Officers Threatened And Intimidated Them, Accused Them Of Being “Yahoo Boys” And Prevented Them From Calling Their Families To Inform Them Of What Was Happening.
He Further Revealed That The Officers Recorded Videos Of Them And Forced Them To Say On Camera That They Were “Yahoo Boys” After Threatening Them.
According To Him, The Officers Initially Demanded ₦500,000 For Their Release. After They Pleaded That They Could Not Afford It, He Says The Amount Was Eventually Reduced To ₦80,000, With An Additional ₦2,000 POS Charge.
He Said The Officers Took Them Outside The Police Station To a POS Operator, Where They Were Made To Transfer ₦82,000 Before Their Phones Were Returned And They Were Allowed To Leave.
One Of The Victims Was Unable To Record Everything That Happened, But He Managed To Capture Parts Of The Incident, Including Some Of The Officers Faces, As Well As Evidence Of The ₦82,000 Transfer Made At The POS. @PoliceNG_CRU@PoliceNG
I want the whole world to see this.
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This is deeply concerning and deserves public attention!
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This raises serious questions about the role of insiders in the fight against insecurity. 🇳🇬
“This bread, from 2011-2015 when GEJ was President, was sold for N170.
2015-2023, the price increased to N400.
In a twinkle of an eye, tinubu increased it to N2,200; and some of you are still supporting APC?..”
— Man expresses his concerns on tinubu’s worsening economic reforms.
Fuel is ₦1500/litre, Tell idiots like Tunde Bakare, F'ẹmi Kuti, Nollywood actors to go back to Ojota and start calling out Tinubu, if not, it shall not be well with them"
“Presidential elections are happening in four months, and all of a sudden, the same person who funds these elections is coming out to say he's selling Refinery shares for ₦5,000 for 10 shares. Poor people are busy gathering their money and sending it to them because they want to buy shares. You people will learn new things." — VeryDarkMan