A housewife based in Sapele, Delta State, Mrs Rose Okoro, has petitioned the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN) and the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Alkali Baba Usman, over an alleged unlawful detention of her husband, Mr Sunday Okoro in September 2020.
Mrs Okoro said her husband was arrested in Sapele on September 9, 2020, by plain-clothe policemen following alleged complaints of threats to life by one Sunny Nwankego.
She alleged that her 14-year-old son was also arrested, handcuffed with the father and paraded and their phones confiscated.
The housewife alleged that her son was detained for over three weeks before he was released, but her husband was denied bail on three attempts on alleged instructions of a senior police officer.
Narrating what transpired, Mrs Okoro said: “On Wednesday, September 9, 2020, at about 6:30 am, my husband, Sunday Okoro was arrested in our home with our 14 years old son, our gateman, the DJ working in our hotel, my husband sister’s son, Precious, and his cousin by some men on mufti who ransacked their private home and hotel without finding anything incriminating.
“They were all taken to Benin and when l inquired, l was told that the policemen were not from Benin, but a team led by embattled DPC Abba Kyari before they were transferred to Abuja and they were denied bail for two weeks until we had a human right activist who came to our rescue.
“He was able to release of our son, the gateman but the DJ was not allowed until we paid money while my husband was still held, maltreated and kept in an abbatior from September 9 to October 27, 2020 before being taken to an area court in Mpape that has no jurisdiction to entertain an alleged case of threat to life.
“The area court in Mpape declined jurisdiction and my husband was remanded in Suleja Correctional Center with no concrete evidence of the offence till May 19, 2021, when he was arraigned for a case of threat to life and act of terrorism at the Federal High Court, Abuja.
“The judge granted him bail on health grounds over the unlawful torture he went through in the hands of the police for urgent medical attention before he goes blind but was refused bail before the complainant filed another fresh charge in another Federal High Court on threat to life and act of terrorism.”
According to her, “The complainant and the police officer asked the prosecutor to file a murder charge against my husband, but the prosecutor refused. Upon his refusal, DSP Abiodun and Abba Kyari took another prosecutor at the FCT who agreed and accused my husband of illegal possession of arms, robbery, threat to life, act of terrorism but still without evidence.
“Luckily bail was granted again but the same officer who led the team, intercepted the prison vehicle at the court gate and hijacked my husband to an unknown destination.
“Meanwhile the FCT prosecutor has filed another case of murder again in another court and the hearing was for July 21, 2021(Sallah day), but same police took my husband to Mpepe Prison, Nasarawa after keeping him for days, brought him to a Magistrate Court on same issue that is before Federal High Court.”
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