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By Emmanuel Udom
A 30 year old mother of four Mrs. Pamela Chukwu-Nnamani whose
estranged husband Mr. Samson Chukwu-Nnamani had alleged abducted their children
and was subsequently arrested, detained and tortured by Policemen on the order
of her husband, has sued the Nigeria Police for five hundred million naira.
In a sworn affidavit deposed to at the Magistrate Court Holden at
Ikeja in Lagos Mrs. Pamela said, she was suing the Police to enforce her
fundamental human rights which was breached.
She said that prior to the rift between herself and her husband;
they had lived as a family on No.10, Ajali drive, Independent layout Enugu in
Enugu State.
She averred that sometime
in 2013, and to her consternation, she observed that her estranged husband
suddenly began to get into fits of anger at the slightest provocation, and that
whenever he is in that state, he descend heavily on her beating her blue
black.
It was when she noticed that all entreaties from family members,
friends and close associates could not dissuade her husband from brutalizing
her and possibly snuff life out of her that she ran for her dear life and
relocated to Lagos.
Speaking further, she said her hope of a safe haven in Lagos was
however shattered on the 5th of January, 2016 when her husband armed
with a pistol and in company of five equally armed mobile policemen as well as
another four heavily armed thugs, and two police officer Inspector Chijioke and
Detective Obi who are attached to the Enugu State Kidnapping Squad broke into
her residence.
Her husband she said, ordered the thugs to descend on her, her
mother and the children, and that while this was going on, she expected the
Police officer to have rescued them but that she was shell shocked that the
Police officer merely stood akimbo, while the father of her kids gleefully
expressed his satisfaction, even as he still barked instruction at the top of
his voice, that they should rape her.
The thugs on hearing their master’s instruction tore her pants and
fondled with her private part with their fingers a development, she said
prompted her mother to shout for help from neighbors as she made good her
escape with the children.
She further revealed that her husband on noticing that her
mother had left the house with the children, dashed out of the house in
pursuit holding the pistol menacingly and when he could not catch up with her,
he came back to the house more incensed and with the assistance of the police
officers dragged her into a waiting car outside and when they drove to a spot
some meters from her home which is just behind the premises of Nigeria
Law School in Victoria Island.
They pulled over and brought her out of the car and wrestle her to
the ground, pinned her down threatening to kill her if she
fails to tell them where her mother took the children to.
While this assault was going, she heard her husband yelling at the
Police officers “I have paid your officer-in-charge, Mr. Akinolu Alex for this
job, I promised him more money, you people should do the job, I paid your
policemen money, rape her, all I want are my children”
Spurred by the command, she said, Inspector Chijioke and Obi
proceeded to inflict unimaginable pain on her, beat her with horse whip and
intermittently smack her with the butt of their gun after which she was
forcefully taken to the Anti Kidnapping Squad office in Enugu.
On the 7th of January 2016, she was brought before the
officer-in –charge Anti-Kidnapping Squad Mr. Akinolu Alex with blood stains as
a result of the beating she received from the thugs and the policemen. If she
had expected Akinolu to sympathize with her, she was dead wrong as Akinolu ordered
his men to detain her in a male cell where she was further harassed and
molested by the male occupants of the cell.
“At intervals detective Obi will bring me out from the cell
into his office and with a teaser torture me until I pass out and he will revive
me and continue the act until he is thoroughly satisfied” she said in an
emotion laden voice.
On the 8th of January 2016, she was called upon and
informed that she was to appear before Alex Akinolu, the officer-in-charge of
Anti-Kidnapping squad in Enugu and that as they approached the officer’s
office, she the voice of two men engaged in a shouting match.
She was to learn later that the shouting match was that the Police
after receiving such amount from her husband to eliminate failed to carry out
his biddings and so if they filed to kill her before the close of the they
should be prepared to refund his money. She was thereafter returned to the cell
but not after she was given another dose of beating.
She had barely settle down, when they came for her again, this
time she was going to meet the Deputy Commissioner of Police Oyekunle and just
like the previous meeting she had in the office of Akinolu, she met her husband
and Akinolu there. Oyekunle it was who asked her to narrate her own side of the
story after he had heard that of her husband. Oyekunle on hearing her side
blamed Akinolu for not briefing him as demanded by Police statute and
consequently ordered that she be released.
Rather than released her, on the 9th January 20th
2016 Akinolu in conjunction with his benefactor Samson Chukwu-Nnamani ,
brought her to Lagos apparently to compel her to hand over the children
to them.
Worried by the unruly behavior of her husband, and the
unprofessional attitude of Akinolu Alex a Chief Superintendent of Police and
the officer –in –charge Anti-Kidnapping Squad Enugu Police Command, her mother
briefed the office of Stephen and Solomon Foundation an NGO that offers
legal briefs for indigent persons behind Prison walls, who contacted the
Nigeria Police Force Complaint Response Unit which promptly initiated an
investigation into the matter and caused her to be released on bail at about
2.00am on the 11th January 2011.
At the office of Stephen and Solomon Foundation, the founder Chief
A.G. Giwa-Amu said I am requesting that the police should cause a detailed
investigation into the matter and the culprit brought to Justice.
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