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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Civil Defence Officers Brutalise PUNCH Journalist, Accuse Him Of Being An ESN Spy


Some officers of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, attached to the Federal Government Girls College, on Monday, brutalised Chidiebube Okeoma, an Imo State correspondent of the PUNCH Newspapers.

The said operatives accused the reporter of being a spy for the Indigenous People of Biafra’s militia wing, the Eastern Security Network (ESN), thereafter arrested and bundled him to their command headquarters. 

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According to reports, one of NSCDC operatives used the butt of his rifle to hit him in the head, another punched him in his left eye and smashed one of his smartphones. 

 Okeoma who was later released after he was interrogated by a senior officer at the command headquarters was treated at the Chapel Group Hospital, Ikenegbu-Owerri, after he lost a lot of blood. 

 “We were at the FGGC, Owerri, to meet the school’s principal over a viral video where a senior student of the school was seen bullying a junior student. At the gate, the security men (NSCDC officers) stopped us and on inquiry, they said that the principal was not around,” the journalist told Sahara Reporters.

 “I asked them to take us to the vice-principal and they said he was not on seat. I asked them to take me to the next-in-command; they asked me to return next week. I told them that it was urgent, and this was when they started bullying me. 

 “Thereafter, two armed NSCDC officers emerged and started beating me. One of them hit me with the butt of his rifle and my head was broken. While in a pool of blood, they dragged me barefoot to their command headquarters like a common criminal. While I was being dragged to their headquarters, one of the officers said I came to kidnap the students. He labelled me a member of the Eastern Security Network. “At their command headquarters, I was interrogated by a senior officer and was later allowed to go. I immediately went to a hospital and was treated. I have gone to the Shall Camp Police Division to make a statement.” 

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 Okeoma who noted that one of the officers threatened to kill him, said the Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Hussaini, who sympathised with him but said they couldn't do anything about it, as only the NSCDC could redress the wrong. 

 Hussaini told Okeoma to report to the nearest command of NSCDC.

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