{"id":23810,"date":"2020-01-21T18:36:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T18:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=23810"},"modified":"2020-01-21T19:41:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T19:41:50","slug":"exposed-how-rivers-state-police-killed-a-mechanic-and-illegally-detained-four-innocent-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=23810","title":{"rendered":"EXPOSED: How Rivers State Police Killed a Mechanic and Illegally Detained Four Innocent Persons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=19271&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I gave my car to my usual mechanic to fix AC Gas on the 19th of Dec 2019. Called him several times on the 20th and did not get an answer. I decided to visit his shop physically at Ikoku\u00a0 to find out\u00a0 \u00a0that my car and the mechanic are nowhere\u00a0 to be found. I asked fellow mechanics around and one said he saw when the mechanic was driving one way and he suspects that he might have been apprehended by the Police.\u00a0 My mind came down a bit after hearing this.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I\u00a0 started visiting\u00a0 \u00a0Police Stations in Port-Harcourt one after the other\u00a0 making enquiries until I got to Mile 1 Police Station and I saw my car parked in front of the Eagle Crack Police Division(a.k.a E-Crack). I felt relief thinking that the Police is my friend, I was totally wrong.\u00a0 I presented myself quickly at the front desk to say that the car belongs to me and I want to know the reason it got to this place.\u00a0 I\u00a0 was shocked to be pointed a gun by one of the officers and I was asked to leave before I get shot.\u00a0 Wow&#8230;. I wondered what crime I could have committed to present myself as the owner of my car. But I had to leave before I get shot.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I\u00a0 got to my house and was drafting a strategy to attack this\u00a0 issue.\u00a0 It was exactly 2hours later when I\u00a0 noticed a knock on my gate.\u00a0 I\u00a0 opened my gate to see a young man who introduced himself as \u201cObinna the brother to Chima\u201d.\u00a0 Chima is the name of my mechanic.\u00a0 He asked me my name which I told him\u00a0 and that he was directed by his brother to meet me. So I asked him quickly\u00a0 if he knew the reason for the arrest.\u00a0 He said Chima told him that he and his boys were testing two cars,\u00a0 3 boys in a camry and 2 boys\u00a0 in my car,\u00a0 after doing some work on them. The traffic in Port-Harcourt around that time was terrible and they decided to drive one way.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The police apprehend them and asked them for money. They offered an amount which was not comfortable for the Police officers. The eyes of the Police officers were completely red looking for money to solve their Christmas matters as this usually happens during the Christmas festive period in Nigeria.\u00a0 The police\u00a0 officers immediately changed the case\u00a0 to robbery, accusing the boys of robbing the two cars.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The officers asked the boys to raise their hands and searched their pockets. They found money in each of the pockets of the boys. According to Obinna, N97,000.00(ninety seven thousand naira) was found on Chima, N50,000.00 (Fifty thousand naira) on one of them, N16,000.00(Sixteen thousand) on another etc, totally over N150,000.00(one hundred and fifty thousand naira)\u00a0 in their pockets. In the minds of the Police officers; (we can not afford to loose this money we have seen physically in their pockets. Our Christmas is guaranteed a success if we can obtain all the money).\u00a0 Which indeed they achieved.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Hand cuffed all of them, took their money and their telephones and arraigned them to the Police Station.\u00a0 Getting to the station, hung this boys upside down in fan hooks and started brutality on them with various weapons. The youngest of them which is only 19yrs was almost at the point of death and accepted to confess whatever they ask him to say.\u00a0 He started making false confession about my car, he agreed that my car was rubbed and that, the car belongs to a lady and that, they jumped into the ladies compound, broke the glass of the car, opened the door and used a master key to start the car. Broke the gate and drove off.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This was the information I got from Mr. Obinna. At least I know the reason why my car is there.\u00a0 So I made contact with the Nigerian Air force Base who sent 2 soldiers to accompany me in my next visit. The two soldiers arrived my residence\u00a0 and accompanied me.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On arrival at the Mile 1 E-Crack Division,\u00a0 the IPO in charge of the case was very rude to the air force soldiers,\u00a0 insulting them saying that this is purely a civilian case and a case of robbery.\u00a0 The soldiers got angry and asked me if they can start beating up the police officers, I calmly told them not to do so as it will make matters worse for the innocent boys in police custody. So I left with the officers.\u00a0 I then called the Air force Commander and updated him on current status,\u00a0 he asked me if I had copies of my car papers,\u00a0 I told him I would get them and revert him accordingly.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I searched in my house for the car papers and did not find. But I remembered that my Driver was the one who renewed the papers not up to 2months back.\u00a0 So I asked my driver for the papers and he informed me that he forgot the original and photocopies inside my car.\u00a0 I\u00a0 asked him to call the man at Inland Revenue to print copies. I got the copies and contacted the Air force Commander again to let him know that I have the papers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Commander joined me to the Police Station on 23rd of Dec 2019.\u00a0 We met the Commander of E-Crack, I noticed the name on his uniform as Benson. The Air force Commander introduced himself and introduced me as his brother.\u00a0 Mr. Benson called the IPO of the case to come and narrate the story. The IPO explained how the boys jumped into a ladies compound,\u00a0 broke the glass of the car,\u00a0 used master key to start the car,\u00a0 broke the gate and drove off. That they,\u00a0 the police officers apprehended the boys at the point of sale. That the boys were communicating with the buyer from Aba and that one of the boys have already confessed to the crime.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">After hearing this,\u00a0 at first I was wondering if it was some Nigerian movie the man was narrating or was he talking about my car?\u00a0 The E-Crack Commander now asked the IPO to bring the boy who made the confession. The boy was brought in after 2mins limping seriously with smelling wounds.\u00a0 The E-Crack Commander now asked the boy to tell the truth that no one would torture him. The boy now started talking by saying that he is only an apprenticed under his Boss \u201cChima\u201d,\u00a0 that the car belongs to Chima&#8217;s customer, that he made the false confession because he was tortured almost to the point of death, at this point, he stretched his arms with handcuffs towards the commander showing him the smelling wounds.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The E-Crack Commander now asked the IPO to return the boy.\u00a0 I now told the E-Crack Commander that I have copies of my car papers here which I got from the Inland Revenue today as my driver forgot the original papers as well as the photocopies in my car,\u00a0 is it possible for the IPO to check my car,\u00a0 get all the papers in it and we compare with what is in my hands. The E-Crack commander agreed and sent the IPO to get the papers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">After 3mins, the IPO came back and said there were no papers in the car.\u00a0 Well,\u00a0 I have copies right in front of us,\u00a0 I asked the commander if the copies I am presenting can be\u00a0 verified, and he concurred.\u00a0 I left the station with the Air force Commander.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On the 30th of December 2019. I returned to the police station and met the commander to verify if my presented documents have been verified.\u00a0 He called the IPO and the IPO confirmed that the documents are authentic.\u00a0 The commander now asked me my full name and I told him.\u00a0 He says that the name on the papers bears the same surname but different first name,\u00a0 why is this so? I explained that, the first name and second name on the car papers belong to my younger sister. He insisted that I must bring her to the station. So I called my sister and picked her up at her office and brought her to the station.\u00a0 I presented her to the commander.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The commander asked how long she has been using the car and she confirmed that it is over 2yrs. He asked the IPO to release my car as well as the second car which was an old model camry.\u00a0 Before leaving his office,\u00a0 I asked about the boys because I still have an unfinished business with my mechanic. He asked me how long I have known the mechanic, I told him that I have known the mechanic for more than 4years and that the mechanic fixes all my cars.\u00a0 The Commander now told me that he is investigating a case of cultism against all the boys. I wondered in my mind how a case of charged \u201cRobbery\u201d could change to cultism. I had no choice other than to leave the station with my car.\u00a0 On the 2nd of January 2020,\u00a0 I got a call from a Barrister saying that he was engaged by the families of the boys in custody.\u00a0 That he has spoken with the Commander with regards to the case. That he was shocked to know that the commander was now working as a commander in that division as he has long known him. That in fact the man is his friend.\u00a0 He continued by saying that the commander told him that the case is a bad one,\u00a0 his boys have over worked. Speaking in pigeon saying &#8220;de case don spoil,\u00a0 my boys don over work&#8221;\u00a0 The Barrister did not understand. The Barrister kept on insisting until the man opened up to say that my mechanic &#8220;Chima&#8221; is dead.\u00a0 He was tortured to death.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Barrister now asked him where the corpse is. The Commander says that he does not trust him enough to reveal that kind of classified information. That the best thing he can do for the remaining 4boys, is to look for a small charge\u00a0 to charge them, so that as soon as they get to the court,\u00a0 bail will be granted easily. He asked the Barrister to come the next day. According to the Barrister, as soon as he left the police station, the Commander immediately charged the boys to court that same day on the charge of my car robbery and cultism. After hearing this from the Barr., I again thought, the police has released my car to me after verifying that it is my car and I never told them that my car was ever robbed, why did they still charge the boys for my car robbery? I later found out the answer\u00a0 which I will say shortly after.\u00a0 <strong>As I write this story, the remaining 4boys are in prison custody with wounds getting rotten and smelling. Chima that the police killed is tagged as &#8220;At Large&#8221;. The answer to my question came out when\u00a0 the families of the deceased visited the court to see a copy of the charge sheet confirming that the police wrote on it that the owner of the car, which is supposed to me, confirmed to them that his car was stolen as described.\u00a0 I have never made such a statement anywhere. My car was never robbed.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The families of the boys visited the prison in Port-Harcourt to see their loved ones and insisted to take photographs after seeing the wounds of some of them excreting water and decayed substances. The prison warders said each photograph will cost them N15,000.00\u00a0 (Fifteen Thousand Naira) each. The families not being able to afford the money, left the prison sobering.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">At this moment of my life, I and my family members are very scared of the police. I wanted to send my brother\u00a0 out with my car, immediately\u00a0 I realized that his drivers license is in process. I got scared and did not engage him anymore, because if police can take a life because of \u201cone way driving\u201d, then it means they can take a life for not having Drivers\u00a0 License and many more.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">As I write this message, my wife is beside me shivering and saying that I should make the message anonymous, for fear that I could get killed by the police for making it public.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Please if I get any mosquito bite, you know who is responsible.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I came to know that the deceased mechanic got married just six months ago and that his wife is a few months pregnant.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Again, the families of the 5 boys are in abject poverty and could not even afford lawyer fees to follow up the case. What a shame.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">BELOW NAMES OF PERSONS INVOLVED:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Victor Ogbonna<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Osaze Friday<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ifeanyi Osuji<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ifeanyi Onyekwere<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Chima Ikwunado (Killed By Police)<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">SP. Benson Adetuyi (Commander E-Crack)<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mile1 Police Station, PortHarcourt, Rivers State Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Inspector\u00a0 \u00a0Sam (IPO)<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mile1 Police Station, PortHarcourt, Rivers State Nigeria.<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=19271&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave my car to my usual mechanic to fix AC Gas on the 19th of Dec 2019. Called him several times on the 20th and did not get an answer. I decided to visit his shop physically at Ikoku\u00a0 to find out\u00a0 \u00a0that my car and the mechanic are nowhere\u00a0 to be found. 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