SARS officers detained us for 73 days demanding we implicate Saraki -Petitioners

Date: 2021-01-09

TWO petitioners; Alhaji Kehinde Gobir and Alhaji Shuaib Jawondo, on Wednesday said that some police officers attached to the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad detained them for 73 days in order to implicate former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki.

The duo who gave graphic details of how they were tortured and humiliated by the police claimed that the disbanded SARS operatives threatened and asked them to implicate Saraki during their alleged ordeal in detention.

Testifying before the #EndSARS panel of inquiry in Ilorin, Kwara State, the petitioners alleged high depth of impunity and human rights abuses by the SARS operatives who interrogated them for their alleged involvement in April 5, 2018, Offa bank robbery.

"We spent over 73 days in police detention in both Ilorin and Abuja as the police accused us of collecting guns from Saraki to participate in the bank robbery operation," they said.

They, however, clarified that they were only political supporters of the former Senate President.

The petitioners also accused the disbanded SARS officers of confiscating their property, which included two Toyota Corolla cars, handsets and N250,000 collected before they were granted bail.

"We did not participate in any crime or involved in any robbery killing in Offa or having any criminal records whatsoever as being wrongfully alleged by the SARS officers. We urge the panel to do the needful by facilitating the quick recovery of our property," the petitioners said. ? In his response, counsel for the police, Adekunle Iwalaye, urged the panel to dismiss the petitions in their entirety.

The Chairman of the panel, Justice Tunde Garba (retd.), adjourned the matter till January 13, 2021 for continuation of hearing.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Oke-Kura     Adeniyi Ojo     Sarah Jubril     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Yoonus Lawal     Mazars Consulting     Atiku     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Ibrahim Abikan     Shehu Alimi Foundation     SUBEB     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     IsDB     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Monsurat Omotosho     Michael Imoudu National Institute For Labour Studies     Park     Sabi     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Toyin Abdullahi     Muhammed Akanbi     Ekiti     Galadima     KWSUED     Bahago     Ballah     Umar Adelodun     Surajudeen Akanbi     Ahmed Dankaya     Issa Memunat Moyosore     George Funsho Adebayo     Alagbado     A.E. Afolabi     Lola Olabayo     Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment     Kola Shittu     Akeem Lawal     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Lotus Bank     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Shururat Olatinwo     Abdulkadir Orire     Gbemi Saraki     Mohammed Haruna     Tunde Kazeem     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Grillo     Share     Aliyu Salihu     Mufutau Olatinwo     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Minister     Flights To Ilorin     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Agor     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Paul Odama     Bashirat Bola Bello     Abdullateef Abdussalam     Moses Adekanye     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Ahmed Alhasssan     Ajia-Bako     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Sherif Sagaya     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     Taofik Abdulkareem     Offorjama     Lanre Jimoh     Ajibike Katibi     Ibrahim Gambari     Omu Aran    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Gbugbu     Patigi Regatta     Tafidan Kaiama     Saliu Oluwole     Afetu Of Alabe     Ibrahim Abiodun     HICA     Jare Olatundun     Gbenga Adebayo     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Irepodun     Ndakene     CCEPE     Micheal Imoudu     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Saka Isau     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Saka Keji     Niguel Gallando Marcias     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Oyin-Zubair     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Ishola Balogun Fulani     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Olaitan Buraimoh     Tuesday Assayomo     Abatemi-Usman     Toyin Sanusi     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Saba Mamman Daniel     Javed Khan     Sunday Otokiti     Timothy Akangbe     Malete     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Ilorin International Airport     Funmilayo Zubair     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Curfew     Halimat Yusuf     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     IPSAS     Senate     Revenue Court     Adamu Atta     Logun     Ishola Abdullahi     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     NYSC     Kwara Poly     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Government High School Adeta     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     Bayo Ajia     Ronke Adeyemi     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Ajia-Bako     Adesoye College     Mary Arinde     Busari Alabi Alausa     Orisun Igbomina     Ubandoma     Muritala Awodun     Al-Ilory     Olatomiwa Williams     Muhammed Akanbi     Idi-Ape     Jamiu Oyawoye     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Tanke Flyover Bridge     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Yahaya Dumoye     Oya State     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Tope Daramola     Aisha Gobir     Muhammed Aliyu