Alhaji Suleiman Yerima, a Lagos-based remote trade merchant has blamed the Assistant Inspector-General of Police accountable for Zone 2, Lagos, Joseph Mbu, of coordinating policemen to torment him more than a forex bargain that turned out badly.
The agent said Mbu guided policemen from Zone 2 to torment him and one of the ways they tormented him was to plunge his face into a can of water, a type of torment known as 'water-boarding', used to concentrate admissions from terrorists.
The man who has requested of president Buhari said he was confined for 80 days by the police after he and a companion were grabbed by the EFCC. He said his companion, a man named Uwem Antia was similarly tormented and beaten. He asserted in his appeal to that Antia is lying discriminatingly sick in a Lagos clinic after a few beatings and torment by the police which included 'hanging him on a shaft like a cooked chicken from 11pm till the early hours of the morning.'
He said, "More than 250 individuals are in EFCC confinement cells; some have stayed for four months, in the ballpark of six months. EFCC did water boarding to me and Antia and it was on the grounds that a companion came to previous IG Suleiman Abba that I was not beaten but rather my life is in peril, the policemen and EFCC authorities are out to murder me."
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Yerima said that his difficulty started on Walk 3, 2015, when EFCC agents called him that he was required at their office in appreciation of a request composed against him and Antia by one Denis Brew and Mrs. Gladys Aginwa, both of Standard Contracted Bank, Lagos.
The FOREX merchant expressed that he went by the EFCC office with Antia in organization with his attorneys and was demonstrated the request, in which Lager charged that he gave him N120m to hotspot for dollars and that he had not satisfied the deal.
Yerima said, "I told the agents that it was not N120m but rather N627m which they sent to Uwem Antia's record with Peak Bank. Antia, who is the Overseeing Chief of Kafisto Oil and Gas Ltd., was the particular case that conveyed the clients to me and my obligation was to hotspot for dollars.
"At the point when Mr. Antia affirmed the alarm of N627m in his record, I gave them $1m in real money. The following day, Antia gave them the parity of $2.250m and both exchanges were legitimately recorded. Amid our session, Antia upheld our announcements with narrative evidence of proof and plainly expressed in his composed and oral proclamations that I had given him the equalization of $2.250m, which he conveyed to Denis Beer."
Despite Antia's announcement and proof absolving him from any wrongful demonstration in the exchange, the specialist said one Mr. Adeola, Head of BFF at the EFCC, still requested that he and Antia ought to be confined.
Yerima expressed that they were denied safeguard and access to their families and attorneys by the EFCC Chief of Operations, IIiyasu Kwarbai, and that when they tested the treatment, they were raced to a justice court on Walk 12, where the commission acquired a detainment request for 30 days.
He said, "On the night of Walk 13 around 8pm, policemen from Zone 2, drove by one DSP Dantoro, went to the EFCC detainment office. Antia was discharged to the officers on the direction of Kwarbai and he was cuffed by the officers and his legs anchored.
"The officers began beating him barbarously in the vicinity of EFCC authorities, the policemen later took him away to their dungeon at Zone 2 and proceeded with the torment under the order of Mr. Joseph Mbu and administered by Dantoro."
Be that as it may, the EFCC denied keeping Yerima and Antia for broadened time of time. The commission's representative, Wilson Uwujaren, who said he was not mindful of Yerima's case, noticed that the opposition to unite organization did not keep suspects in its guardianship superfluously.
At the point when reached by Punch, Joseph Mbu couldn't be gone after remark.
Source: Punchng
