TORTURE: Suspect Narrates Ordeal In The Hands Of NDLEA Officials

TORTURE: Suspect Narrates Ordeal In The Hands Of NDLEA Officials

— Oct 22, 2015 12:19 pm | Leave a comment
A 38-year-old man from Agboride village, Amaizu community in Afikpo North local government area of Ebonyi State, Emmanuel Oko Uwa, yesterday narrated his ordeal in the hands of officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) as a result of which he began to pass out blood while urinating.
Uwa who was arrested and arraigned by NDLEA in 2012 for being in possession of 1kg of Indian hemp was brought to the Federal High Court yesterday for cross and re-examination.
Addressing the court, Uwa said men of the NDLEA numbering 21 invaded his compound at 3am of 15th February, 2012 and started ransacking his rooms after asking of the whereabouts of one Sunday Ogbonnia who resides in the compound.
He said he had told the NDLEA officials that Ogbonnia was not in the compound and that they started forcing him to follow them to their office in Afikpo North.
“Because I refused to follow them, they started beating me mercilessly. They later bundled me inside their car and left. They broke my legs and inflicted injuries on my face as can be seen even till now.
“When they got to their office, they continued the torture to the extent that I started urinating blood each time I wanted to urinate and it is still happening to me.
“They said I should admit that I am a drug dealer to free myself which I refused because I’m a trader; I trade in palm oil, not hard drugs”, he said.