How I Was Put In Same Cage I Urinated In For 2 Days —Phone Repairer Detained On Instruction Of CCT Chairman

When I was taken away to DSS custody, I was still beaten. I was put in a small cage; the same place I was urinating for more than two days.

Peter Onyuike, a phone repairer arrested and detained illegally by the police on the demands of Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) Chairman, Danladi Umar, has said he will not take any legal action against him.

Onyiuke told PREMIUM TIMES on Monday that his decision was hinged on the fact that he did not want to be at loggerheads with any influential person in the country.

While responding, he said he would not "want any more trouble from any big man in this country."

"Whatever happened, I leave it to God who has seen me through all my troubles in the hands of that big man," Onyiuke said.

Onyiuke, a phone repairer at one of the outlets at Banex Plaza, Wuse, Abuja, where Umar physically attacked Clement Sargwak, the plaza’s security guard, was detained without charge from March 29 till April 6 by the police at Wuse Zone 2, Abuja. See Also News Police Leave CCT Chairman, Umar, Arrest Trader For Assault 0 Comments 1 Week Ago

Witnesses at the scene of the incident, in separate interviews with PREMIUM TIMES had said Onyuike was severely beaten by the security agents who reportedly acted on Umar’s order before he was driven away.

Umar, according to the witnesses’ account, accused Mr Onyuike of being rude in an encounter they had shortly after the CCT chairman assaulted the plaza’s security guard.

Onyuike had helped the CCT boss to pick up his phone that fell to the ground without him knowing, and was trying to return it to him when the Umar started an argument with him.

He was later picked up by security agents suspected to be the Department State Services (DSS) operatives who later handed him over to the police.

The police detained him from then till last Tuesday, clearly violating constitutional provision that prevents the detention of any person without charge for more than 48 hours.

When asked about his efforts to get justice, Onyiuke said on Monday that despite how he was beaten, with his clothes torn and the harsh treatment meted out to him in detention, he would not want to risk another ‘trouble’ from a Nigerian big man.

He said, “Sir, I do not want any more trouble from any big man in this country. With what I went through throughout last week in the detentions of the police and DSS, my brother, I was only saved by God. And I do not want to go back to it.

“I was beaten and my clothes were torn down to my underpants. When I was taken away to DSS custody, I was still beaten. They (SSS operatives) said I caused them body aches.

“I was put in a small cage; the same place I was urinating for more than two days before I was later taken to the police station.

“Whatever happened I leave it to God who has seen me through all my troubles in the hands of that big man, (Mr Umar).”

He added that he did not have a lawyer and his family members from whom he could have got support were not resident in Abuja.

“I don’t have a lawyer, my family are in the village and I am not sure any of them knew or was aware of my ordeals,” he said.

Speaking further about his experience, Onyiuke, added, “He said I insulted him, but I did not.

“All I did was to help him (Mr Umar) pick up his phone that fell to the ground and which I returned to him (Mr Umar). So I leave him to God.

“I don’t want him or anyone to come back for me or any of my friends here (plaza) who have been supportive and begin to intimidate us.”

Despite the accounts of several witnesses and the victim of the involvement of DSS operatives in the arrest and detention, the agency’s spokesperson, Peter Afunaya, had debunked it.

“Not true, no SSS (also known as DSS) operative did that,” he stated in a text message sent to our reporter.

Asked about Samuel Ihensekhien, the lawyer who broke the news of his detention to Sagwak, he said, “I don’t know any lawyer or anyone; it was just God that helped me all through.”

His position not to pursue justice contradicts that of Sagwark, the plaza’s security guard, who had Mr Ihensekhien file a petition against Umar at the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), asking for a probe into the March 29 incident.

Mr Sagwak, in the April 9 petition signed by his lawyer, Mr Ihensekhien, accused the CCT chairman of abuse of power, assault, torture, and ‘xenophobia’.

When contacted over Onyiuke’s case on Monday, Mr Ihensekhien said, “I don’t have instructions for representation from Mr Onyuike.”

“I just had to assist out of my own benevolence to get him (Mr Onyuike) out of jail,” he said, adding that “But both Sargwak and the security company instructed me to represent them and that was why I filed a petition before the National Human Rights Commission.”

“So, if he (Mr Onyuike) approaches me, as my own practice I would represent him,” the lawyer also said.

Aside from the case filed at the NHRC on behalf of Mr Sargwark, a petition was also filed by two national officers of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), at the Legal Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) seeking Umar’s trial for what they described as his “unlawyerly and ungentlemanly conduct”.

Umar was caught on camera assaulting the security guard, Mr Sargwak an employee of Jul Reliable Guards Services Limited.

In the five minutes video footage that went viral, the tribunal chairman was seen slapping and kicking the 22-year-old, on March 29.

According to witnesses who spoke with our correspondent, the altercation was over the space where the CCT chairman parked his car on the premises of the mall.

Despite video evidence, the CCT chairman denied the assault allegation.

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Some of these yeye big men see themselves as next to God

That's the same mentality of these fulani jihadists

He will pay for it,

We are mere mortals in the hands of our creator. But many people always forget this.

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your mumu never do

Ibos vs Fulanis

Have money and power... Obviously Peter is a simple and peaceful man, decided to leave it to God.
Even though its obvious he has been beaten and threatened to come to that decision

Too much power..

Noted

some people don’t deserve RIP when they die

Lol, the guy said he doesn't want any trouble with any big man in Nigeria again . The guy will be a man of peace for the next one year.

Umar is a baztard .Some of these Hausa/Fulani are wicked.If these pipu want to destroy U,it won't cost them much.Just make sure u have Ur own supporters/ backup.Otherwise,u go hear am..

All these people do not have respect for Muslim leaders. How can a whole CCT judge be embarrassed by a common security guard? Can he try that rubbish with a common magistrate court Judge in the East? That's why simplicity is not good. If Umar had gone outwith his security details, would that useless guard have the temerity to go close to him?

I thought it was a lesson next time might be hole that is Nigeria for you

UstazAhmed:
All these people do not have respect for Muslim leaders. How can a whole CCT judge be embarrassed by a common security guard? Can he try that rubbish with a common magistrate court Judge in the East? That's why simplicity is not good. If Umar had gone outwith his security details, would that useless guard have the temerity to go close to him?

You be confirmed Malu, Malu sef get sense pass you.

Umar will suffer at the appointed time

His offense? Biafran youths!

UstazAhmed:
All these people do not have respect for Muslim leaders. How can a whole CCT judge be embarrassed by a common security guard? Can he try that rubbish with a common magistrate court Judge in the East? That's why simplicity is not good. If Umar had gone outwith his security details, would that useless guard have the temerity to go close to him?

You are a fool. Zancen shara

It is shameful and equally indefensible that someone charged with such sensitive office like that of the chairman of the CCT, can resort to such despicable behavior. What code are you conducting when you lack basic decency?

It is even a worse indictment that under the APC led government, no spokesman has come to either refute these allegations nor even distance themselves from it. Even more distasteful, agencies who are supposedly charged with law enforcement, are involved in this rubbish.

They detained the man unlawfully. Why didn't they charge him to court if he was guilty in their eyes. I weep for Nigeria and I am ever ashamed to be one.

UstazAhmed:
All these people do not have respect for Muslim leaders. How can a whole CCT judge be embarrassed by a common security guard? Can he try that rubbish with a common magistrate court Judge in the East? That's why simplicity is not good. If Umar had gone outwith his security details, would that useless guard have the temerity to go close to him?

bro u guys are really backwards....this is 2021

Nawa ooh
no mercy on the guy sha..

God is not sleeping.

That's why I don't pity them when they die untimely..which power does he have that people have not had..Oarsinary Barrack OBama became USA president

Cct judge or wetin u call ..proud useless fpola and jihadiat. Na accise tal discharge go kill am.

They have to remove this idiot out of that position.