Casmir Ibegbulem, an oil worker who was arrested and detained by the Imo State Police Command, after a raid for unknown gunmen, has narrated his ordeal in detention, saying the police locked him up in an underground cell and demanded N10 million as his bail. Ibegbulem, who was labelled and paraded as an Eastern Security Network (ESN) gunman and member of the Indigenous People of Biafra, did audio after his release, narrating how the army waylaid him, transferred him to the police who then brought all of them to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, where they were locked up in an underground cell.

SaharaReporters on June 3 reported that the 40-year-old oil worker and father of one, who was wrongly raided and paraded as one of the unknown gunmen, had been released after this newspaper reported about him and others.

Ibegbulem is a “Permit Holder” staff of an oil company at Bonny Island in Bayelsa State and a native of Ogwa Community in Mbaitoli, Imo State.

He had returned to Imo State for the burial of his in-law, which was to take place on May 28 but was arrested in Owerri on May 25 when he came to pick up some personal items needed for the burial.

Police patrol personnel had pounced on him at gunpoint and arrested him.

“He was paraded same evening alongside four others. Ibegbulem is married to Onyekachi who is seven months pregnant,” SaharaReporters had exposed in its report.

In the audio he did after his release, Ibegbulem narrated his sordid ordeal in the hands of the police.

He said, “With little or no investigation when they raided us, they tied me and others and drove straight to the State Criminal Investigation Department at Owerri. We were beaten and molested, with our phones off and no sort of communication to any loved ones.

“Two days later, we were asked to enter a vehicle, and it was after we crossed Onitsha, that they told us we were being transferred to Abuja. Immediately we landed in Abuja, we were sent to an underground prison.

“While there, I was scared and hopeless, hoping that a miracle would happen. Later the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) in charge of my file, summoned me and told me my case was a serious IPOB case, more like a kidnapping case. He asked me if my people could afford to pay N10 million as bail. I insisted I would not pay.

“I was bargaining for N800,000. On the second afternoon, I was fortunate to come across my uncle – a military officer who came around to the police headquarters in Abuja. He was shocked because he wasn't expecting anybody, due to the lapse in communication.

“That was how they worked out my bail. On the next day, I wrote a statement for the first time and I was granted bail.”

A report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, a civil society and research group, had detailed how the police and the army raided South-East residents and labelled them as IPOB (Indigenous People of Biafra) and ESN members.

“In all these, we have received over 100 phone calls and messages from members of the public testifying in favour of the abducted and slain citizens named above. Intersociety hereby calls on the Nigeria Police Force and Nigerian Army to immediately and unconditionally release all the citizens arrested illegally.

“We urge them to desist from the perpetration of frame-ups and trumped-up allegations or charges, abductions and disappearances, extrajudicial killings and other forms of genocidal operations going on in the South-East,” Intersociety had said.

http://saharareporters.com/2021/06/14/how-police-locked-me-underground-cell-demanded-n10million-%E2%80%93-oil-worker-labelled-ipob-esn

I can remember when he was first arrested, and the post made FP, a guy on naira land was accusing him of financing them.

I hope wherever he is right now, he should be seeking for forgiveness.

He who brings home an insect infected stick should not cry when the lizards party in his house...

To the wise..

Most of our security agents are cowards, whenever they are beaten by criminal elements they find solace in arresting and maiming innocent citizens.

His only crime was being an Igbo man

No other crime

But the Sun will surely rise again

No one can ever be certain of the time

But no one ever doubts the certainty of the occurance and total libration

Signed
Nwa spare parts onye Dot

When will the police display dis same overzealous attitude in the North dat is facing all sorts of security challenge?

At least he is alive to tell the tale, so many innocent people were murdered by Army and Police, guns placed on their dead body, and paraded to the public and press. Those ones are never coming back to tell their story

PlayerMeji:
He who brings home an insect infected stick should not cry when the lizards party in his house...

To the wise..

It can be anybody even you
why are lizards now parting in other peopls house that did not bring home infected stick .

In your case it might not be police better herdsmen.

PlayerMeji:
He who brings home an insect infected stick should not cry when the lizards party in his house...

To the wise..

And you think that you made sense

Shame on you

10 million as bail? No be kidnapping be that?

Una fake news eh... How bonny island take be bayelsa?

PlayerMeji:
He who brings home an insect infected stick should not cry when the lizards party in his house...

To the wise..

u re too daft

Very painful.

You are living in denial...

The truth still remains since UGM have no identity, soldiers can arrest anyone and charge them for the crimes committed by the UGM.

Seems to me, a lotta you fellas wanna eat your cake and have it.

fuckingAyaya:
u re too daft

RisenJoe:


And you think that you made sense

Shame on you

limeta:



It can be anybody even you
why are lizards now parting in other peopls house that did not bring home infected stick .

In your case it might not be police better herdsmen.

So correct..we told them when they were cheering UGM....

PlayerMeji:
You are living in denial...

The truth still remains since UGM have no identity, soldiers can arrest anyone and charge them for the crimes committed by the UGM.

Seems to me, a lotta you fellas wanna eat your cake and have it.

PlayerMeji:
He who brings home an insect infected stick should not cry when the lizards party in his house...

To the wise..

You’re an idiot

Righteousness2:
I Thank GOD for your life.
You are a product of the Mercy of God.
"I will Have Mercy on who I will Have Mercy"

So many innocent others just like you, were wasted.

Just shut up, which Rubbish Mercy? Those other ones killed and illegally detained are at the mercy of the Devil I guess? It’s this dummy and useless religious mindset that is keeping us in Bondage today.

Rolly22:


Just shut up, which Rubbish Mercy? Those other ones killed and illegally detained are at the mercy of the Devil I guess? It’s this dummy and useless religious mindset that is keeping us in Bondage today.

Shut up before you make a fool of yourself.
How is it our religious mindset that's keeping us in bondage?
As far as I know, it's people like you and your villagers that got us in this mess today. You vote for bad leaders just bcus of a half bag of rice and red oil. Now you're trying to put the blame on believers. Sit down negrito

Criminals in uniform

In order to be law abiding, someone went to make a legal complaint of breach of agreement, the police demanded for 300k before attending to the matter.

You can imagine how the person we t on to sort the matter himself.

PlayerMeji:
He who brings home an insect infected stick should not cry when the lizards party in his house...

To the wise..

So they should allow fulani herdsmen kill people without resistance?
Whenever there's news by NPF that IPOB members has been arrested some people on this NL will just keep rejoicing even when they know these are innocent people; that's how some people were rejoicing when python dance was killing people illegally
It is well with una but tomorrow una go say we Igbis hate you & then NL will say "NO secession" agitation . So they can't be killed by NPF & silenced by nairaland
Una well done oo

PlayerMeji:
You are living in denial...

The truth still remains since UGM have no identity, soldiers can arrest anyone and charge them for the crimes committed by the UGM.

Seems to me, a lotta you fellas wanna eat your cake and have it.

That's not justifiable in any way and a very stupid way to approach such issues.

The UGM would just gain sympathy from people and would be seen as freedom fighters.

That's how it started in Maiduguri in 2009 before unprecedented violence began. At that time, any police officer who wore uniform just signed his death warrant.

gidgiddy:
Casmir Ibegbulem, an oil worker who was arrested and detained by the Imo State Police Command, after a raid for unknown gunmen, has narrated his ordeal in detention, saying the police locked him up in an underground cell and demanded N10 million as his bail. Ibegbulem, who was labelled and paraded as an Eastern Security Network (ESN) gunman and member of the Indigenous People of Biafra, did audio after his release, narrating how the army waylaid him, transferred him to the police who then brought all of them to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, where they were locked up in an underground cell.

SaharaReporters on June 3 reported that the 40-year-old oil worker and father of one, who was wrongly raided and paraded as one of the unknown gunmen, had been released after this newspaper reported about him and others.

Ibegbulem is a “Permit Holder” staff of an oil company at Bonny Island in Bayelsa State and a native of Ogwa Community in Mbaitoli, Imo State.

He had returned to Imo State for the burial of his in-law, which was to take place on May 28 but was arrested in Owerri on May 25 when he came to pick up some personal items needed for the burial.

Police patrol personnel had pounced on him at gunpoint and arrested him.

“He was paraded same evening alongside four others. Ibegbulem is married to Onyekachi who is seven months pregnant,” SaharaReporters had exposed in its report.

In the audio he did after his release, Ibegbulem narrated his sordid ordeal in the hands of the police.

He said, “With little or no investigation when they raided us, they tied me and others and drove straight to the State Criminal Investigation Department at Owerri. We were beaten and molested, with our phones off and no sort of communication to any loved ones.

“Two days later, we were asked to enter a vehicle, and it was after we crossed Onitsha, that they told us we were being transferred to Abuja. Immediately we landed in Abuja, we were sent to an underground prison.

“While there, I was scared and hopeless, hoping that a miracle would happen. Later the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) in charge of my file, summoned me and told me my case was a serious IPOB case, more like a kidnapping case. He asked me if my people could afford to pay N10 million as bail. I insisted I would not pay.

“I was bargaining for N800,000. On the second afternoon, I was fortunate to come across my uncle – a military officer who came around to the police headquarters in Abuja. He was shocked because he wasn't expecting anybody, due to the lapse in communication.

“That was how they worked out my bail. On the next day, I wrote a statement for the first time and I was granted bail.”

A report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, a civil society and research group, had detailed how the police and the army raided South-East residents and labelled them as IPOB (Indigenous People of Biafra) and ESN members.

“In all these, we have received over 100 phone calls and messages from members of the public testifying in favour of the abducted and slain citizens named above. Intersociety hereby calls on the Nigeria Police Force and Nigerian Army to immediately and unconditionally release all the citizens arrested illegally.

“We urge them to desist from the perpetration of frame-ups and trumped-up allegations or charges, abductions and disappearances, extrajudicial killings and other forms of genocidal operations going on in the South-East,” Intersociety had said.

http://saharareporters.com/2021/06/14/how-police-locked-me-underground-cell-demanded-n10million-%E2%80%93-oil-worker-labelled-ipob-esn

Anyone that supports or SYMPATHISE with IPOB, ESN, BIAFRANS or Unknown Gunmen is also an IPOB.

Thank God that u're alive to tell your story, others couldn't.

Almaigaa:


Anyone that supports or SYMPATHISE with IPOB, ESN, BIAFRANS or Unknown Gunmen is also an IPOB.

Got nothing to do with IPOB, someone came home for a burial and was arrested with no investigation, taken to Abuja and paraded as an ESN member

That is very bad police work

So if he pays the N10M, he ceases to be a member of ESN

When they said the DSS were the ones behind UGM, some people were doubting

They create a problem, they pretend as if they are solving it

Terrorists in uniform

gidgiddy:


Got nothing to do with IPOB, someone came home for a burial and was arrested with no investigation, taken to Abuja and paraded as an ESN member

That is very bad police work

Lies.
The guy is one of those unknown gunmen

That's why God will keep punishing those men in uniform. The number of people they kill are more than those killed by any other criminal organization in Nigeria. It didn't start today. They will kill the person's nd still look for something to pin in him.
God's punishment comes in different packages. May they one that befits their wickedness reach them.
Amen

This is why d average man on d street lends allegiance to ESN and even UGM than to d men in uniform. If Providence didn't interfere in this innocent man's false parade by now he would have been dead with d stigma of being a criminal and d immediate family will have to live with such identity for life

Almaigaa:


Lies.
The guy is one of those unknown gunmen

So someone residing in another state who was exonerated and freed is "one of those unknown gunmen"?

Where is your proof?