One Sunny Ekwe, a lawyer based in Ovorie Ethiope East LGA of Delta State was
allegedly beaten by 5 soldiers who left him to die after
they fractured his spinal cord.
According to Omemimoro Maxwell Ogedegbe, who posted the photos on
Facebook,
the incident happened on the
evening of March 11th
"Two of them arrested and still
in the military custody of the 222 battalion
Agarho Utor, Ughelli, delta
state. On the
11th of March 2017 at about 7pm this lawyer went to visit a
relative at the
Okpara waterside when suddenly as he was
about to leave a young boy demanded he should follow him to meet
some other
boys seated in a distance that was a bit dark.
"In the process of
resisting the boy, the boy called the other four guys who
descended on the lawyer
and subjected him to
the most crudest humiliation and brutality ever and only abandoned
him to
die in a close dried up drain. Because of the
atrocities of the boys in the area no body in the community could
intervene as
they are young soldiers. The lawyer was
rushed to the hospital at Isiokolo but referred to Orerokpe after
he was revived.
"The police of Isiokolo made first failed attempt at
arresting the boys but they
resisted and the police chickened out
claiming as military officers they must be dealt with by their
command. It took
the intervention of my humble self and
a serving magistrate to prevail on the DPO who mobilised
about 20 mobile police
personel to the community and luckily
the boys were at the verge of moving to their station and only two
were apprehen
ded as three had left before police arrival .
"They were arrested and
formally handed over to the commanding officer of the
222 battalion where they have
been in custody till date.
They are persons who just returned from 9months military
training. We salute
the reawaken dogged Ness of the DPO and the forthright
Ness of the commanding officer who have sent for the return of the
fleeing officer.
Truly they have realised this is a democracy
where pen is mightier than the sword."
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