In 1989, during Liberiaโs deadly civil war that brought down Samuel Doe, one Nigerian man saved over 1,000 fellow Nigerians from sure death. His name? Mr Emmanuel Chukwu.
โWe Northerners Are Backward In Nature. Weโre Anti-Development In Nature. We Are Holding The Country Back In So Many Ways. The Fulani Are Destroyers. They Have Destroyed The North And Now Trying To Destroy The South.โ-Man Blasts And CAlls Out His Fellow Northerners
I am just returning from the Custodial Center.
I was meant to re-interview just one person: remember the guy that got sentenced to death for defending himself against two armed robbers that attacked him?
Yes, today as scheduled for his further interview.
However, sequel to the said interview, the Officer in Charge, whilst on soft patrol, reached out to me and commended me for taking conscious effort to decongest the custodial center under his care. He was most impressed.
So, whilst at it, inmates without lawyers were referred to me.
I handful of them and some of those cases are worth sharing, after spending more than 4 hours [t]here.
1. Interviewed an inmate, let us called her EUO.
- She is 18 years old.
- Her father died when she was still a child (she is told).
- She hawks "agidi" and lives with her grandmother.
- Accused of armed robbery.
- She was arrested sometime in August 2024 alongside three men between ages 45 - 49 - all accused of armed robbery.
- When the police arrested, they tortured her to the point that she confessed to be an armed robber and wielding a gun.
-But at the Custodial center and during interview, she opened up that she never did any of those things: that it because:
1. the hung her upside down;
2. used lighter to burn her vagina;
3. tortured her until she could no longer endure the torture she received.
- One of the suspects arrested with her, who flatly denied being an armed robber, subsequently died at the police correctional center, owing to the torture meted on him at the Police Station.
- She was asked to produce 150k for her bail at the police station. But since she could produce the said 150k, she subsequently remanded.
- It is her case that she was prevented by the police from reaching her grandmother at all material time.
Her family is not aware of her whereabouts as I make this tweet.
I will be representing her pro bono.
I like the way this guy analyzed this whole thing. Actually, Nigeria was close to being a trillion-dollar economy & that's the only crime we committed. WHY WAS OB@MA THIS HEARTLESS?