How Nigerian Policemen Brutalised Me In Front Of My Wife, Children During Investigation –US Returnee

A returnee from the United States of America, Dr Joseph Ologbo, has narrated how policemen from the Delta State Police Command allegedly brutalised him in his house in the presence of his family following allegations that he was sponsoring cultism....CONTINUE READING

Ologbo, who returned from the US in January 2023 to his family in Delta State, narrated in an account obtained by SaharaReporters that the policemen hit him with guns and tried to force him to admit to the crime…..CONTINUE READING

The victim added that he was locked up in a police cell in the Sapele area of the state, noting that a lot of “young men have been killed like this for nothing.”

The US returnee said, “On the first of January 2023, I came into Nigeria and got to Sapele on the 10th of the same month. I was in Asaba from 19th to 22nd; I came back to Sapele on the same day.

“On the 23rd of January 2023, I was at The Stone Hotel to buy food when I was arrested by the police. I was beaten like a criminal from the hotel and in the car they put me in, the policemen were hitting me with a gun and kept asking me where I kept an AK-47 rifle.

“I told them I don’t have any AK-47 and that I have only a pump action which is registered. They then took me to my house; sat me down on the floor outside my compound in front of my wife and my daughter and beat me mercilessly.

“They turned my house upside down; up till now, my wife has not been able to arrange the house. They recovered Norsemen materials like pictures of me in our regalia, Norsemen constitution, magazines, cap, lions jacket, they also took four of my kids’ tablets, three laptops one for me, one for my wife and one for my foundation, my personal Apple tablet 2022 edition, my land papers; three of my house papers, my passport and that of my wife.

“The next day, I could not walk so they had to take me to the police hospital there in Sapele station where I got treatment.

“When they took my statement, I maintained that I am a Norseman but I was beaten already. I was transferred to Asaba. I was just locked up until I fell sick and fainted repeatedly. “Thankfully, a Commander told them to bring me out of the cell every morning and take me back to the cell late at night, so they were bringing me out to the office where they did the interrogation.”

“All this they did to me has dented my reputation. I am a chief in my village and I have a lot of people that look up to me. I was insulted, embarrassed, abused, oppressed and intimidated. So, many young men have been killed like this for nothing and they just arranged trumped-up allegations on them.”

“At the moment, I want to thank the court for granting me bail; my legal team and I are looking forward to the case trusting that the judiciary which is the last resort for us would once again deliver justice in this case, and for the inhuman manner in which I was treated by the Nigerian police, I shall subsequently also seek redress in due time because I believe if we all keep quiet and succumb to this heinous oppression by Nigerian policemen, we will not see an end to human right violations in our society,” he added…..CONTINUE READING