Benin based tailor in his mid 30's, Johnson Eze narrated to the Edo State Judicial Panel of inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses, of how he was tortured, arrested and forced to pay 100,000 naira over an allegation that he was gay.
Eze, who said he was detained at the Iyekogba Police Station in Benin on the orders of the Area commander for three days, alleged that he was abused and coerced to sign a statement already prepared by the Police. Polycarp Odion, a Counsel for the Police, under cross-examination said the victim did not obtain a medical report from the hospital to substantiate his claims of being beaten and injured. Odion, told the Panel that the victim was only blackmailing the Police. But counsel for the victim, Innocent Ukpai, alleged that it was the pattern of the Area Commander and his cohorts to invade the privacy of Benin residents, arrest, detain, molest and extort money from them for unjustifiable and unsubstantiated reasons.
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