• Home
  • Stories
    • Politics
    • Business
    • Arts & Culture
    • Health
      Bill and Melinda Gates

      Goalkeepers Report: Gates foundation announces $200 million commitment, pledges to reduce maternal, child mortality

      2023 Goalkeepers Report: Bill, Melinda French-Gates list seven innovations that would stop maternal mortality

      2023 Goalkeepers Report: Bill, Melinda French-Gates list seven innovations that would stop maternal mortality

      COVID-19: Bill Gates says he warned us

      Nigerians, others to get $5m Gates Foundation global health AI grants

      Why I am coming to Nigeria, Niger, by Bill Gates

      Bill Gates prediction about NIgeria: Embrace innovations, technology, he tells youth

      Bill Gates

      Next pandemic will be man-made, deadly – Bill Gates warns

      BMGF takes giant leap, expands Board as Econet Billionaire Masiyiwa makes the cut

      Does our foundation have too much influence? Here’s how I see it

      The doctor pronounced him dead in the car, they did not remove the corpse, they did not separate his wife fro him -Osita Chidoka

      The doctor pronounced him dead in the car, they did not remove the corpse, they did not separate his wife fro him -Osita Chidoka

    • Security
    • Travel
  • World
  • Africa
  • Humans of Abuja
  • Investigation
  • Development
  • Contact
Infactng
  • Home
  • Stories
    • Politics
    • Business
    • Arts & Culture
    • Health
      Bill and Melinda Gates

      Goalkeepers Report: Gates foundation announces $200 million commitment, pledges to reduce maternal, child mortality

      2023 Goalkeepers Report: Bill, Melinda French-Gates list seven innovations that would stop maternal mortality

      2023 Goalkeepers Report: Bill, Melinda French-Gates list seven innovations that would stop maternal mortality

      COVID-19: Bill Gates says he warned us

      Nigerians, others to get $5m Gates Foundation global health AI grants

      Why I am coming to Nigeria, Niger, by Bill Gates

      Bill Gates prediction about NIgeria: Embrace innovations, technology, he tells youth

      Bill Gates

      Next pandemic will be man-made, deadly – Bill Gates warns

      BMGF takes giant leap, expands Board as Econet Billionaire Masiyiwa makes the cut

      Does our foundation have too much influence? Here’s how I see it

      The doctor pronounced him dead in the car, they did not remove the corpse, they did not separate his wife fro him -Osita Chidoka

      The doctor pronounced him dead in the car, they did not remove the corpse, they did not separate his wife fro him -Osita Chidoka

    • Security
    • Travel
  • World
  • Africa
  • Humans of Abuja
  • Investigation
  • Development
  • Contact
No Result
View All Result
Infactng
No Result
View All Result

How I was made paraplegic by SARS officials, trader tells Lagos Judicial Panel

November 3, 2020

A trader, Mr Ndukwe Ekekwe has recounted to the Lagos State Judicial Panel Investigating cases of alleged police brutality, how he was made a paraplegic by officers of the disbanded Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS).


The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that wheelchair bound Ekekwe told the nine-man panel on Tuesday that he was thrown from a two-storey building at the Alaba International Market by officers of the squad.


Accompanied by his aged mother to the sitting, Ekekwe, who was not represented by a counsel, narrated to the panel in pidgin English the events that led to his paralysis.


The petitioner said at 2.00pm on Feb. 16, 2018, he was arrested at the Alaba International Market without charge by SARS officers .
He said that fellow traders asked the policemen show their identity cards before Ekekwe could be handcuffed.
“They immediately removed their SARS shirts and began to shoot and everyone ran away. I asked them what my crime was and they said the arrest was an order from the Inspector-General of Police (IGP).


“I was handcuffed in one hand because they noticed I wasn’t a troublemaker. On our way, they stopped at Igando and came down from the car and were talking.
“I used my other hand to reach my phone to try to call my mother, but the Inspector saw me, approached me and asked who gave me the guts to make a phone call and he took the phone, stepped on it and destroyed it.

READ ALSO: EndSARS: Buhari directs engagements across geopolitical zones


“He stabbed me on my wrist and back and I was hit on the head with the butt of a gun and beaten. They collected the N58,000 that was for my shop,” he said.
Ekekwe said he was taken to the SARS office at Ikeja, Lagos, and at midnight he was stripped naked, taken to a torture chamber where he was beaten and tortured.
He said other SARS officers, who were torturing other individuals, also joined their colleagues in torturing him and the men even threatened to shoot him.


“I was left there till evening and I didn’t know my crime and till now I don’t know my crime. They kept saying that intelligence report is on me.
“At night of that day (Feb. 17, 2018), I was taken to my three shops where I sell phone accessories.
“The SARS officers using hammers, broke into my shop and took my goods in their vehicles and sold some of it to people in the market.
“They took away my goods worth N15million. I began shouting to attract attention and the commander told them to take me to the top of the two-storey plaza and I was thrown down from the building.


“The SARS officer that threw me from that building is Hamza Haruna. They took me back to their office in my injured state,” he said.
Ekekwe said that when his condition became dire, he was taken from the SARS office to the Police Hospital in Ikeja . He said was eventually referred to two other hospitals for treatment of his injury.


The trader said that he used to be the breadwinner of his family, but suffered a spinal injury from being thrown from the storey building, which led to his paralysis.
The petitioner said the police did not pay for his medical expenses and that he had to sell his house and landed property to offset the expenses.
The chairman of the panel, Justice Doris Okuwobi (Rtd) adjourned proceedings to Nov. 13 for the testimony of Ekekwe’s mother.

Share120Tweet75Share30
INFACTNG

INFACTNG

Related Posts

Bill and Melinda Gates
Health

Goalkeepers Report: Gates foundation announces $200 million commitment, pledges to reduce maternal, child mortality

September 21, 2023

From Seun Akioye, New York The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) yesterday announced an additional funding commitments of $200 million towards achieving universal access to family planning products and information, faster delivery of lifesaving health solutions, and a...

You have touched Tiger’s tail- Rivers CP tells cultists over DPO’s murder
Security

You have touched Tiger’s tail- Rivers CP tells cultists over DPO’s murder

September 12, 2023

By Admin The Rivers State Commissioner of Police (CP), Emeka Nwonyi, has addressed the cultists who killed the  Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ahoada, Bako Angbashim, saying the have touched the tiger’s tail and would be fished out by...

2023 Goalkeepers Report: Bill, Melinda French-Gates list seven innovations that would stop maternal mortality
Health

2023 Goalkeepers Report: Bill, Melinda French-Gates list seven innovations that would stop maternal mortality

September 12, 2023

By Adeyemi Olusoga/Abuja The co-chairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Bill Gates and Melinda French-Gates have highlighted seven new innovations which if made available to those who need them, would save at least two million mothers...

It’s a lie, I didn’t bribe Rufai Oseni, Peter Obi cries out
Politics

It’s a lie, I didn’t bribe Rufai Oseni, Peter Obi cries out

August 28, 2023

By Adeyemi Olusoga The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last presidential election, Peter Obi has cried out against an allegation that he bribed Rufai Oseni, a journalist with Arise Television to obtain favourable mentions at the...

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Recent Posts

  • Goalkeepers Report: Gates foundation announces $200 million commitment, pledges to reduce maternal, child mortality September 21, 2023
  • Political will, resource scaling, key to addressing child and maternal mortality in the world- Mark Suzman, CEO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation September 21, 2023
  • Imagine a World: Three changemakers get Global Change awards at Goalkeepers event September 20, 2023
  • Imagine a world as Goalkeeper awards opens in New York September 19, 2023
  • You have touched Tiger’s tail- Rivers CP tells cultists over DPO’s murder September 12, 2023

Categories

  • Africa (14)
  • Agriculture (12)
  • Agriculture (3)
  • Arts & Culture (30)
  • Business (222)
  • Cover (25)
  • COVER STORY (61)
  • Development (25)
  • ENDSARS PROTESTS (39)
  • Features (13)
  • Health (83)
  • Humans of Abuja (5)
  • Investigation (8)
  • Law (15)
  • News (765)
  • Obituary (20)
  • Opinion (36)
  • Politics (173)
  • Security (183)
  • Stories (339)
  • Travel (6)
  • World (42)

Popular

  • Six years pregnancy: A Miracle too hard to believe

    Six years pregnancy: A Miracle too hard to believe

    472 shares
    Share 189 Tweet 118
  • Akindele Oluwaseun: ‘Crying Teacher’ who receive over N1m donation and gave it all out

    384 shares
    Share 154 Tweet 96
  • How first female combat Pilot was killed

    367 shares
    Share 147 Tweet 92
  • Army throws out ‘nosey’ editor from own platform

    364 shares
    Share 146 Tweet 91
  • Missing man found dead, after four suicide attempts

    363 shares
    Share 145 Tweet 91

  • Contact
  • News

© 2020 Infactng – Investigative Journalism

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Stories
    • Politics
    • Business
    • Arts & Culture
    • Health
    • Security
    • Travel
  • World
  • Africa
  • Humans of Abuja
  • Investigation
  • Development
  • Contact