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.

Kwara Pdp     Ilorin Metro Park     United Nigeria Airline     Yakubu Dogara     Baakini     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Ogbondoroko     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Ayo Salami     Kwara State Television     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     SDP     Oni Adebayo     Bayer AG     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Iponrin     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     KWASSIP     TETFUND     Baba Adini Of Kwara State     SSA Youth     Iqra Books     IFK     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Rafiu Olasile     George Funsho Adebayo     Bank Of Industry     Amasa     General Hospital     Musbau A. Akanji     Tunde Akanbi     Yetunde Balogun     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Abubakar Imam     Manzuma     Muhammad Ghali Alaaya     Ilorin West     Pakata     Okin Group     IEDPU     Yusuf A. Usman     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     Saidu Kawu     Shero     Kale Belgore     Saeedat Aliyu     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Umaru Saro     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Ajibola Ademola Julius     Salihu S. Yaru     Gwanara     Yomi Adeboye     Tunji Ajanaku     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Jelili Yusuf     Jide Oyinloye     Solomon Edoja     Salman Jawondo     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Fola Consultant     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Folashade Omoniyi     Ohoro Of Shao     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Lai Mohammed     Oja-Oba     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Gbemi Saraki     CUTI     Tayo Awodiji     Edu     Saka Balikis Kehinde    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Students Union Government     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     National Pilot     Kayode Ishola     Dele Belgore     Ibrahim Orire     Folashade Omoniyi     Oba Abdulraheem     Amasa     Yusuf Abdulkadir     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Rafiu Ajakaye     Ishola Balogun Fulani     Michael Imoudu National Institute For Labour Studies     Adamu Atta     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Arca Santa     Oba Abdulrahim     Ilorin Innovation Hub     Awoye     Olaoye B. Felix     Bareke     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Kwara State Football Association     Ndakene     Razaq Atunwa     Ajia-Bako     Raji AbdulRasaq     Segun Ogunsola     Wahab Abayawo     Omupo     Elerin Of Adanla     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Adeola Abraham     Ilesha-Gwanara     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Simon Sayomi     NURTW     Rabiu Kwankwaso     Moshood Mustapha     Inside Kwara     Nnazua     Ilorin General Hospital     Benin Republic     Aliyu Muhammed     Saba Jibril     KWSIEC     Sadiq Buhari     Admiralty Villa     LABTOP     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Toyin Abdullahi     Moses Salami     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     ITEM 7     Jumoke Gafar     SAPZ Project     Omoniyi Ayinla     Kwara North     Gurei     Goodluck Jonathan     S.O. Opowoye     Press Release     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     Ajikobi     Idris Garba     Radio Kwara     Suleman Abubakar     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Labour Party     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Ndama Al-hassan