Civil rights group, Crusade for Justice, has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police over alleged assault and unlawful detention of Evangelist Hypolite Akuatuegwu by the police.
The group, in the petition by its President and Founder, Richard Nwankwo, alleged that on July 30, at about 1.30p.m., Akuatuegwu was invited by his friend to a pharmacy (names withheld) in Ikeja, where unknown to him, members of Team 16, Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, GID, Ikeja, Lagos, laid an ambush.
The petition read: “When he arrived the scene to meet his friend, five heavily armed policemen, all in mufti, pounced on him and mercilessly assaulted him in the full glare of the public, slapping him several times, and then handcuffing him.”
The petitioner also alleged that Akuategwu was unlawfully detained for seven days without cause, except that he was asked to provide information as to the whereabouts of the estranged wife of an Alaba International Electronics Market-based businessman, who hails from Igboukwu, in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State.
It read: “That to our client’s greatest shock, he was told orally, without being shown the alleged petition against him, that he stole $5,600 US (N150,000) and some documents from the business man’s house.
“On September 6, at about 7p.m., he was released after he was threatened and made to pay N100,000 to the said team and provide two sureties. All the monies on him at the point of arrest, about N25,000, were taken away from him and never returned.”
It appealed to the Inspector-General to use his good offices to investigate the allegations and ensure that the law took its cause.
The group, in the petition by its President and Founder, Richard Nwankwo, alleged that on July 30, at about 1.30p.m., Akuatuegwu was invited by his friend to a pharmacy (names withheld) in Ikeja, where unknown to him, members of Team 16, Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, GID, Ikeja, Lagos, laid an ambush.
The petition read: “When he arrived the scene to meet his friend, five heavily armed policemen, all in mufti, pounced on him and mercilessly assaulted him in the full glare of the public, slapping him several times, and then handcuffing him.”
The petitioner also alleged that Akuategwu was unlawfully detained for seven days without cause, except that he was asked to provide information as to the whereabouts of the estranged wife of an Alaba International Electronics Market-based businessman, who hails from Igboukwu, in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State.
It read: “That to our client’s greatest shock, he was told orally, without being shown the alleged petition against him, that he stole $5,600 US (N150,000) and some documents from the business man’s house.
“On September 6, at about 7p.m., he was released after he was threatened and made to pay N100,000 to the said team and provide two sureties. All the monies on him at the point of arrest, about N25,000, were taken away from him and never returned.”
It appealed to the Inspector-General to use his good offices to investigate the allegations and ensure that the law took its cause.
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