He should sue Nigeria Police shikina! Unlawful arrest, unlawful detention and soliciting of bribery.

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

This man is lucky. Some where killed and others have no newspaper to write about them. Many that the police claimed that they killed as ESN members do not know where ESN usually hold their meeting. Their offense is that they are igbos

There is no smoke without fire... When UGM was busy killing innocent men in uniforms and you people were cheering them on, you didn't know these were what people had foreseen to know that these killings would still come back to haunt your people.

You allowed the enemy to gain traction on your land by those senseless killings and burning of government properties.

When those killings were going on, a lot of your folks came online to post videos and pictures of the victims and how jubilant they were, you had forgotten that when an enemy is making a mistake, you don't correct him.

I know the truth is a bitter pill to swallow...but I m sure when you are alone you will get to think about these things....

NaMe4:


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.

Cherez:

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

Rolly22:


You’re an idiot

Mangekyo:


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

You’re an idiot, I don’t blame you because we are in a faceless forum.

This guys issue doesn't worry me...

What worries me is the sick demented folks on social media who outrightly condemned this people by merely seeing pictures. As far as I am concerned, ALL the men in that picture are innocent. Who knows what their fate is right now or how many are still alive.

Govt is NOT the problem.

Its the people who are sick in the head.

End of!!!

Rolly22:


You’re an idiot, I don’t blame you because we are in a faceless forum.

Acting tough behind your keyboard. You wouldn't survive one uppercut from me IRL so enjoy being a keyboard warrior.

You lucky.

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

To the wise.."

Laughs out loud and walks out of thread

PlayerMeji:
There is no smoke without fire... When UGM was busy killing innocent men in uniforms and you people were cheering them on, you didn't know these were what people had foreseen to know that these killings would still come back to haunt your people.

You allowed the enemy to gain traction on your land by those senseless killings and burning of government properties.

When those killings were going on, a lot of your folks came online to post videos and pictures of the victims and how jubilant they were, you had forgotten that when an enemy is making a mistake, you don't correct him.

I know the truth is a bitter pill to swallow...but I m sure when you are alone you will get to think about these things....

Lets hear word. Did people like you say anything all these years that the same men in uniform were busy shooting and killing innocent unarmed Biafran protesters?

It is this year that UGM paid them back in their own coin that you people suddenly know that to kill an innocent person is bad

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.

Hope they have been arresting innocent northerners and labelling them bandits and bokoharam and fulani herdsmen killers too

What goes around comes around ooo

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

To the wise..

take your advice to your bereaved families.

PlayerMeji:
There is no smoke without fire... When UGM was busy killing innocent men in uniforms and you people were cheering them on, you didn't know these were what people had foreseen to know that these killings would still come back to haunt your people.

You allowed the enemy to gain traction on your land by those senseless killings and burning of government properties.

When those killings were going on, a lot of your folks came online to post videos and pictures of the victims and how jubilant they were, you had forgotten that when an enemy is making a mistake, you don't correct him.

I know the truth is a bitter pill to swallow...but I m sure when you are alone you will get to think about these things....

Can you specify the timeline of those attacks
I don't support killing of policemen but I'll hint you if you lack understanding
1. Killer herdsmen have been killing peaceful farmers & villagers for over tyrs now on a large scale. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/05/breaking-herdsmen-kill-nine-in-enugu-community/%3Famp%3D1&ved=2ahUKEwiukN-7pKPxAhUF1BoKHQlKBEwQFjACegQIChAC&usg=AOvVaw0mZawTYxzql-rCQdKSJ40M
2. The NPF & NA did absolutely nothing while the NSA asked people to defend themselves
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DjvN7O--cHh8&ved=2ahUKEwiQ1dbzpKPxAhUSx4UKHYoZDm0QtwJ6BAgEEAI&usg=AOvVaw1N_dFwf-ajQzAh0H9bcv1a
3. ESN was formed and their activities were limited to the bushes and confronting killer herdsmen http://saharareporters.com/2021/03/30/eight-killed-esn-operatives-fulani-herdsmen-clash-enugu-community

4. Same NPF & NA that couldn't save people from herdsmen now attacked ESN defending people from killer herdsmen
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/02/how-military-destroyed-eastern-security-network-camps-in-imo/%3Famp%3D1&ved=2ahUKEwjDhpXrpaPxAhWRxoUKHVyXD7IQFjAGegQIFBAC&usg=AOvVaw2apJH40V2_7s9ACL0wAMKR

Let us assume the ESN are evil, why did the NA deny Igbogho access to the forests of Igangan but couldn't have defended the people whom were killed?
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nairaland.com/6591766/soldiers-prevent-sunday-igboho-entering&ved=2ahUKEwjk8t7HpqPxAhXLx4UKHW29B4kQFjACegQICxAC&usg=AOvVaw3kQx-RmRBhuIi9hD-tVRDO
And they did same in Benue, Taraba & Adamawa sometimes bombing a whole village for protecting themselves against killer herdsmen
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/adamawa-villagers-bombed-killed-nigerian-air-force-herdsmen-simultaneously-amnesty-claims/amp/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bellanaija.com/2017/12/air-force-deploys-2-jets-bomb-villages-adamawa/amp/
And most popular media were stopped from publishing this news

STOP SUPPORTING EVIL YOU ARE DOING DUE TO LACK OF KNOWLEDGE