See How Lagos State Task Force Officials Harasses, Assault and Detain Men and Women Illegally(Photos)
Category: Lagos News
According to this post by LIB, some men of the Lagos State Task on night of Friday, September 3rd, went about some areas of Lagos raiding, harassing, molesting and detaining people who were minding their personal business. According to the report, not less than N10,000 was charged per person detained.
Read the full story below...
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In the early hours of September 3rd, some young Nigerians suffered from
what can be described as a shocking abuse of power by officials of the
Lagos state Task Force. Imagine going out to have fun after work on Friday
at places without a curfew and then all of a sudden being manhandled,
sexually harassed by men, thrown into a van and detained in a cell
without knowing your offence? This was the fate of some women (including
a heavily pregnant lady) and men in Lekki, Victoria Island and other
places on Saturday, 3rd of September, 2016. LIB reached out to one of
the victims (a woman), who cried bitterly as she recounted the horrific
experience. Read after the cut...
PLEASE help put this incident out there for "justice" of we upstanding citizens of Nigeria, living in Lagos.
I
am a chartered accountant by profession. I was out on the 2nd of
September with friends and colleagues at "Maroccaine restaurant" in
Akin Ogunlewe, off Ayorinde, VI. Due to it being a Friday and into the weekend (Sept 3), we all decided to stay a bit later than usual. At about 1am,
I decided to go to my car and change into a pair of comfortable
slippers. I had just done that and was in front of my car, about to
cross into the restaurant when I was apprehended by 2 men. My immediate
reaction was fear of kidnappers because of the way I was grabbed.
Security men and friends tried to stop and intervene when all of a
sudden, other men in police uniforms came and started beating them, the
police/ the task force told the guys that if they should try again, they
would shoot these men and would label them as armed robbers. I struggled and pulled up a fight so as not to be grabbed.
While
I was struggling, I was beaten, dragged on the road and was put into a
van that read: "Lagos State Task Force". While I was struggling, another
2 men joined in and 1 of them put his hands on my "private part" twice.
I was in shock and was bundled like a criminal into a "black Maria"
truck. I saw lots of women and some men in this truck. I was so scared
and asked what was going on. Nobody had an answer. They were all picked
randomly from: The Place at Ikeja, The Place in Lekki1, Sip on Akin
Adesola, Eko Hotel where suya is being sold.. Shots were equally fired
at The Place in Lekki 1, when resistance was met. We were all scared and
confused.
We then were driven to The Task Force Office in
Alausa... where we were forced down, and taken into an area. We then
demanded for what was going on and the next thing we knew, these
officers (ALL men and one woman) called us "PROSTITUTES". We
started saying no way because there were bankers, Nurses, NYSC servers, a
pregnant woman amongst us and more professional upstanding citizens. We
were then locked in a cell without light, ventilation and filled with
urine. We were told why should we be out by 1am
and not in our homes. We argued there was no law prohibiting anyone
from being out if there is no sanctioned curfew. I kept telling them
that I had been molested and the policemen told me to not say it and
equally told me that am I the first person to be touched? I kept
insisting that I would not be silent.
'A lady's bra was torn
in the process of picking her and her fiance who were out celebrating
his birthday. We were all physically manhandled.'
Luckily for me, because I knew someone at the upper echelon, I was released by 6.45am.
My uncle was asked to fill a form without paying bail. I called the
person whom we knew to inform him that other innocent people where still
being held against their will. These ladies and some men where later
released at about 10am, after being ordered to pay 10k per person for bail. These task force group collected the money.
"The
new kidnappers are these officials who take innocent citizens. Please
don't let these people get away with this. I and some of the other women
have decided to write a petition and press charges. PLEASE help us out
and expose these devious and callous acts against our human rights and
person! The trauma is too much, I have cuts and bruises over my body. I
can't even sleep, it keeps replaying over and over. It's like a
nightmare that wouldn't stop."
The videos below show how they
were bundled into a vehicle like common criminals, harassed and told to
arrange 10k in their cells in order to released. Note: The victim who
narrated this incident to LIB revealed she was the third person that was
released. Before her, two other girls were released ONLY because their
father was an ex military general and handed over to him. When she went
back to the office the next day, it was revealed that Para-military men
(dressed like touts) were the ones who pick up men for the task force.
When the overall boss of the Lagos state task force told her to identify
those that picked her up, she could not point out which para military
man was involved due to the conditions at the time they were picked but
was able to identify two task force officials currently pleading with
her not to press charges. Other victims involved have submitted
petitions and more interestingly, a supposed high ranking official is
allegedly offering to bribe the victims into silence.
A petition
has been written to the Lagos State and would be presented before the
preliminary hearing at the Lagos State House of Assembly this morning.
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