copied from Ambrose Nwaogwugwu > Goodluck Jonathan
2015-2019
How I Was Brutalized By Okorocha’s Aides, In-
Law, Detained for Wearing a ‘TAN’ Vest
My name is GREG OKEY NWADIKE. I am from
Uzoubi-Umuna in Orlu LGA of Imo state, Nigeria,
but based in Abuja the FCT. I am a media
practitioner and publisher of the magazine –
Profile International.
On Monday, the 26th of January, 2015 at around
6.00pm, I was driving down from Nwangele
Local Government Area to Owerri through the
Okigwe Road having attended a rally of a
senator of that zone which I covered for use in
my publication. I was actually rushing to meet
up with the Etisalat Office on Wetheral Road to
fix my internet modem. Getting to the IMSU
junction, and being conscious of the traffic
situation usually on RockView/Government
House Roundabout of that road, I then elected to
pack my car somewhere around the Imo state
Tax office. I chattered a tricycle to take me to
Wetheral Road. But just before the Rochas
Foundation Plaza opposite the Nigerian Prisons,
we ran into angry and rampaging youths who I
later realized were Imo students as they were
obstructing traffic, destroying chandeliers and
some street lighting equipment on the road.
Others were chanting songs against the APC
government in the state, others chanting for the
governor while others against a student they
described as the SA Students Affairs. Others
were pelting on the billboard of the governor
while others were throwing stones into the
compound of the Rochas Foundation.
As a curious news hunter, I carefully positioned
self and picked some clips with my handset with
the sole intent a journalist usually has, and
which is breaking news. I interviewed some of
the youths and they spoke to me. I rounded off
and left the scene. I came back later after the
rioters had been dispersed to speak to the
Okorocha’s camp so as to develop a balanced
story in line with the ethics of the profession. But
on getting just around the bus stop opposite the
Rockview Hotel, I noticed a middle aged man
with hoary hairs inside the Rochas Foundation
plaza pointing at me and ordering some thugs to
get me.
These men numbering over 25 men came after
me and pounced all over me with blows and
kicks. The beating became so intense and I fell
down screaming to them that I was merely doing
my work as a journalist. They later dragged me
into the Rochas Foundation building on the
orders of another young man whom I later
understood was the Commissioner for Lands and
Urban Development and son in-law to the
Governor, Mr. Uche Nwosu. This was even as
the beatings continued in the building. One of the
thugs went inside one of the rooms and came
out with a weapon. He smashed the object on
my head and gripped me round the neck from
my back threatening to cut my artery and
allowed me die through bleeding. At this point,
the Commissioner for Youth and Sports came
down to see who it was, but on recognizing me
as his school mate in the secondary school
simply enquired what was my offence. I narrated
to him and he ordered the guy hitting me to stop
that. He walked away and the beating
continued.
Mr. Uche Nwosu slapped me on the face and
told me that I would rot in jail for leading
students to attack the government. Persistently,
I informed them that I was not a student but a
journalist on duty. They enquired of my ID card
which I presented. They observed that my
driver’s license had the address of the National
Assembly Press Corps and the story quickly
changed that it was Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha,
the PDP governorship candidate that paid me to
mobilize infiltrators into the students group.
At this point, and while I was still bleeding from
my mouth and nose, the Commissioner for
Information walked in with team of journalists for
my parading. When I was dragged up to face the
team, many of them recognized me and
screamed out my name. They quickly positioned
their recorders to take my voice, but on realizing
that the story may no longer favour them
decided to prevent them from taking my side.
They succeeded in driving them away even as
the journalists protested and insisting they knew
me. Their protest continued outside but later
died down. Few minutes later, the Information
Commissioner came back to me with two
cameramen; a still photographer and a video
man and simply said to them “This one is anti-
Rochas. Look at him, he is from TAN” It was at
this stage that it dawned on me that I was
wearing a T-Shirt with the branded tag
“TRANSFORMATION AMBASSADOR” on it. The
cloth was given to me by a friend few weeks
back and has been in my car ever since. I merely
changed into the cloth as I was packing my car
that evening because of the dirt on the one on
me earlier that day. The crew recorded me and I
told them that I was a journalist. I denied the
Commissioner’s claim that I had a meeting that
morning somewhere in Owerri with Prof. Viola
Onwuliri, the Minister for Education and Chief
Emeka Ihedioha where I was paid to mobilize
students against a governor that has been given
them free education. I also denied that I was
brought into the state by TAN to be doing a
hatchet job for the group against the Okorocha’s
government. I accepted that as a true Nigerian I
believe in the TRANSFORMATION ideology which
is the same thing as the CHANGE ideology of the
APC. At this stage, the Commissioner ordered
them to stop the interview with me. He took
them to a corner and granted them his own
fabricated lies aimed at pleasing his master.
There were so many other allegations leveled
against me and the persons of Prof. Onwuliri and
Chief Ihedioha which were all lies. I wondered
where and how I got all the influences they were
dressing me with. On my parents’ grave I swear
that I had never met either by proxy or one-on-
one with any of these respected Imo citizens. I
don’t even consider myself fit even in the years
ahead.
Few minutes before 10.00pm, the Police was
brought in to take me along with a little boy who
claimed he was a student of Alvan Ikoku Federal
College of Education to the State’s CID, CP
Monitoring Unit with the order “no one must see
him” from Mr. Uche Nwosu. I was dumped into a
windowless 12×13 room cell apartment with 67
occupants at that night in their worst
dehumanized manner. The place would be better
called an oven; a pigs’ haven. I was not allowed
to contact anybody as my handsets were all
confiscated by the Governor’s aides. I was
equally not allowed to use any officer’s phone.
Foods were not provided for the inmates and no
charges were readily available against me till
Friday, the 30th of January, 2015 at around
3.00pm that the Commander hurriedly came
around and ordered them to bring out “the TAN
boy” and let him go. I was called out and quickly
asked to get someone to take me on bail after
spending four days in a dungeon against my
fundamental Human Rights.
I sustained some cuts on my body with a sprain
on one of my arms. My head and face are
swollen. My eyes have been painful and blood
soaked with my lips cut. My dental set was
seriously affected and the jaw bone behind my
left ear persistently painful. I get sharp internal
pinch on my right ribs a little under my breast.
My urine has been reddish and I have been
vomiting blood. I have just been placed on
emergency treatment in a private hospital.
It is equally necessary to alert the public through
this medium that I was given as the only
condition for my being released and staying alive
to accept to work for the APC and Governor
Rochas Okorocha in the coming elections. This
negotiation was ongoing with a private
correspondent before the superior intervention to
my release. From the stories of the inmates I met
in the cell, I have no option at this stage also
than to alert the public now that I am still
breathing of where to direct my search should
anything befall me in the near future.
My humble take is that no individual or group of
individuals should be subjugated or subjected to
any forceful association. To my humble pen-
professionals, an injustice to one is an injustice
to all. I pray you not to ignore this. Thuggery and
violence must be stopped as part of weapons of
winning elections.
Thank you.
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