A
middle-aged woman, Mrs QUEEN AKINDELENI, of Anu Oluwa Complex, Jolu
Road, Sango-Ota, Ogun State made these revelations. This is her story in
her own words
I was a property developer and seller of building materials at Edu
Agbara, Ogun State prior to my arrest, detention and injuriously torture
sometimes in October, 2009.
I woke up one morning and suddenly allegations were made against me
was that I was responsible for the death of my husband Mr. Ayodele
Akindeleni whose where about could not be ascertained at the time, then
the matter was reported at Agbara Police Station, Agbara, Ogun State. I
went to Agbara Police Station, Agbara,Ogun State, myself on the 12thof
October 2009 to report the matter after I was threatened by the family
of Mr. Ayodele Akindeleni that they will kill me and my Children,
Charles Ighovoyiwi and Esther Ighovoyiwi, if I did not tell them the
where about of Mr. Ayodele Akindeleni.
I made the compliant on the threat to my life and the lives of my
children, I was not permitted to leave the Police Station, and as my
children came one after another to look for me, they were also arrested.
They expected me to make a confessional statement that I killed Mr.
Ayo Akindeleni, after his family member, James Akindeleni, came to
complain.
The D. P. O. of Agbara Police Station at that material time told the
team investigating the case that they should not call the case murder
case, but rather missing of Mr. Ayo Akindeleni.
My son Charles came to look for me after he came back from school and
it was the heavy noise of his cry that made me knew he was around.
Charles later told me and I believe it to be true that it was the back
of a gun that was used to hit him at his legs.
I totally do not know anything about the disappearance of Mr. Ayodele
Akindeleni, neither was I responsible for his alleged death, on a
Saturday I was taken to one bush to go and see one skeleton/Carcass they
called the carcass of Mr. Ayo Akindeleni. The next day which was Sunday
the team of Police Officers who investigated the case at Agbara
Station, excluding DCO 1, whose name I did not know, and the D. P. O.,
came to station and took me out. The team of Police Officers who
investigated the case at the Police Station ,Agbara, Ogun State,
tortured me with cruelty that I must confess that I killed the alleged
deceased person.
I can only remember the first names of two out of the team of Police
Officers who were involved in this case at Agbara Police Station,
Agbara, Ogun State; the first names are Shadrach ( DCO 2) and Raphael.
Shadrach gave me one straight metal with four corners, which looked like
window aluminium to carry and tell him whether it was heavy or not. I
told him the metal was heavy and he took it from me and Shadrach started
using it to beat me repeatedly on the left side of my body from up to
down. Then later the three other Police Officers joined him (Shadrach),
they beat me with the metals in their hands and led me to the Barrack
(the Police residence within the premises), as I was struggling to climb
the veranda Shadrach used the metal in his hand to strike me hard at my
back, I fell down immediately and could not stand. As they were doing
these I was screaming and wailing with pain that was beyond description.
They later took me into a bathroom, and i was asked to remove my
under wear (pant). The team of Police Officers who investigated the case
asked a female officer, whose name I could not remember, to insert the
metal which Shadrach gave her into my private part. The Female Police
officer asked me to be screaming as if she has inserted it and I did as
she instructed me. The Female Police officer later told them that she
had inserted the metal into my private part but I did not confess. Then
Shadrach came to the bathroom and took the metal from the female officer
and tried to perceive it smell/odour to confirm if it was truly
inserted into my private part.
Shadrach discovered that the metal was not inserted into my private
part, he took it himself and held me with force to the ground, with my
legs wide opened and forcefully inserted the metal into my vaginal.
Shadrach inserted the metal into me forcefully, I screamed with the
whole of my strength and I felt as if life had gone out of me.
Then immediately he removed the metal I faintly saw a heavy rush of
blood out of my vagina, but was weak and helpless. I was held and
partially carried back to the passage of the Police Station, Agbara
where I was laid on the floor. I was there on the floor blood continued
to flow and I discovered that I eventually fainted, because I woke up
and I saw myself soaked with water.When the D. P. O. of the Police
Station saw me, he was surprised and asked whether they tortured me and
they responded that they did not torture me.
I was not attended to by anyone and I started smelling. About four
days later a man was invited to examine me and they later brought drugs
for me to use.I discovered that with the drugs I was given the flow of
blood reduced. I then noticed that urine was just leaking out of my
private part and I could not control it at all.
My daughter Esther Ighovoyiwi who was twelve (12) year old at the
material time was arrested on the same allegation at Agbara Police
Station, Agbara, Ogun State by the team of Police Officers who
investigated the case. While Esther Ighovoyiwi was in detention, though
only for that day when she came to look for me, at Agbara Police
Station, she was severally slapped and inhumanly assaulted, by Shadrach,
to the extent that she became sick and had her ears discharged pos
uncontrollably under groaning pain.Esther Ighovoyiwi was eventually
released on bail after her arrest and brief detention, which I knew, was
unlawful.
My son Charles Ighovoyiwi who was Fourteen years old (14) at the
material time was arrested, detained and tortured by the team of Police
Officers who investigated the case, they beat up CharlesIghovoyiwi,
using sticks on him and even threatened to kill him. My son spent one
month and twenty nine days in detention at Agbara Police Station, Agbara
without being charged or convicted of any crime.
After I was transferred to Nigeria Police Force, State
Headquarters,Elewe Eran, Abeokuta, Ogun State, my son tod me that he was
released by the influence of one man, whose name he did not know. The
Police Officers who were equally part of the investigating team at the
Nigeria Police Force, State Headquarter, Elewe Eran, Abeokuta, knew I
was tortured and blood and urine was flowing from my vagina. They then
went on to summon the team of Police Officers who investigated the case
at Agbara Police Station and he asked me to identify the person that
inserted metal into my vagina, which i did.
However I was not provided with medical attention at Elewe Eran,
Nigeria Police Force Headquarters, Abeokuta throughout my stay there. I
was took into the Prison Custody, Nigerian Prison Service, Ibara,
Abeokuta, Ogun State, with blood stained clothes and I was walking
half-bent and I had to lean on someone, sometimes standing objects and
walls to support myself.Even the staff of the Nigeria Prison Service,
Ibara, Abeokuta, Ogun State at the material time, including the medical
personals at the Prison’s Clinic knew that my vagina was releasing urine
uncontrollably and I had chronic pains in my back, bones and other
parts of my body.
I was later given treatment in the Clinic of the Nigeria Prison
Service, Ibara, Abeokuta, Ogun State, and I was referred to Federal
Medical Centre, but there was no money for my treatment. I was not taken
to any Hospital for treatment outside the Nigeria Prison Service,
Ibara, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
During my stay at Ibara, i was interviewed by delegates from
Citizens’ Right Department, Ministry of Justice, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta,
Ogun State, I was also interviewed by one Barr. Ashaolu Joshua Olabowale
, sometimes in July, 2010, who I identified as a member of the National
Youth Service Corps because of the NYSC uniform he wore at the welfare
Department, Nigeria Prison Service, Ibara, Abeokuta. Barr. Ashaolu
Joshua Olabowale told me and I very believed him to be true that he was
serving with Ministry of Justice Ogun State as 2010/2011(BATCH A)
member. He then told me that he was interested in my case. On subsequent
visit to the Nigeria Prison Service, Ibara, Barr. Ashaolu Joshua
Olabowale told me that he was handling my case personally, but was
supervised by a senior State Counsel at the Citizens Right Department,
Ministry of Justice, Ogun State. I was released on 2ndof September,2010
by the Order of the Chief Magistrate Court, Agbara based on the Advice
of the Director of Public Prosecution, Ministry of Justice, Ogun State.I
was made to understand that the allegation against me was frivolous,
baseless and lacks merit, particularly considering the facts and
evidence of the police.
They said that i and my children suffered for what we did not know
about. After my release from the Prison Custody Barr. Ashaolu Joshua
Olabowale took me to the Federal Medical Centre, Idi Aba, Abeokuta,
where I was examined at the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
and I was asked to run several tests. My Hospital Card number is 80626.
After the medical examinations and tests were carried out, Barr.
Ashaolu Joshua applied for my Medical Report. I was confirmed to have
Vesico-Vaginal Fistula (VVF), which it main symptom is continuous
involuntary discharge of urine, because of the abnormal openings in the
internal parts of my genital/vagina caused by the metal the Police
Officer inserted into my Vagina. I was scheduled to undergo further
examination which I was preparing for when I lost contact with Barr.
Ashaolu Joshua O. All my efforts to get him proved abortive, because I
left the place where I was squatting and I was not using a mobile phone.
I did not hear from him or see him till the end of his stay in
Abeokuta.
I went to the Citizen’s Right Department, Ministry of Justice,
Abeokuta, Ogun State and I was told to go and treat myself because they
cannot take up the matter for me.I was told by one of the Doctors that
examined me that my case requires a major repair surgery and I know it
must be very expensive. They said i could not go for the final
examination and treatment because I had no money. I am still living with
my situation and it is even worst now, because I ooze foul odour and
release urine involuntarily, apparently an effect of a ruptured bladder
occasioned by the inhuman torture I suffered in the hands of the
Investigating Police Officer at Agbara Police Station, Ogun State. So
because I could not afford to treat myself in Abeokuta and to avoid the
way I am being openly embarrassed by the way I smell, the way I am
rejected and avoided, I relocated to a village in Ogun State, where I
now farm to survive.
I was a sucessful business woman before, had taken a long walk from
Agbara POLICE DETENTION TO ELEWE ERAN, ABEOKUTA POLICE DETENTION TO
NIGERIA PRISON SERVICE CUSTODY TO ABEOKUTA TOWNSHIP AS WONDERER AND NOW
IN A VILLAGE IN OGUN STATE LIVING ALONE, APPARENTLY WAITING FOR MY END.
I have been kicked out of the public, I have to withdraw because I am
often rejected and avoided.I have lived with continuous flow of urine
from my Vagina and have used cloths among others as sanitary pad to pack
my genital/vagina for more than one thousand (1000) days.The trauma of
the barbaric acts still frightens me.
The V. V. F., general body and internal pains and other health issues
confirmed in my body after examinations still remain untreated.
My consultant can be reached on 07051647234 This injustice left my
children, Charles Ighovoyiwi and Esther Ighovoyiwi with a bitter and
dreadful story, which they will live with for the rest of their
lives.Charles Ighovoyiwi, who was a student of Tech 1, Technical College
Igbesa, Ogun State missed all school activities for a whole school
term. Esther Ighovoyiwi (age 12) who was a student of Edu Agbara
Community Secondary School had to leave school and fend for herself. My
children are now drop outs and have no hope of going back to school. My
little Esther had to become a mother when she never wanted.
Gosh!!!! This is brutality in it's highest state. Indeed, the heart of men is evil!!! God help this nation Nigeria!