How I Was Put In Same Cage I Urinated In For 2 Days - Man Detained By CCT Chair Speaks Out

 

Peter Onyuike, a phone repairer arrested and detained illegally by the police on the demands of Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) Chairman, Danladi Umar, has said he will not take any legal action against him. Onyiuke told PREMIUM TIMES on Monday that his decision was hinged on the fact that he did not want to be at loggerheads with any influential person in the country.

While responding, he said he would not "want any more trouble from any big man in this country."

"Whatever happened, I leave it to God who has seen me through all my troubles in the hands of that big man," Onyiuke said.

Onyiuke, a cellphone repairer at one of the shops at Banex Plaza, Wuse, Abuja, where Umar physically attacked Clement Sargwak, the plaza’s safety shield, became detained with out charge from March 29 until April 6 via the police at Wuse Zone 2, Abuja. See Also News Police Leave CCT Chairman, Umar, Arrest Trader For Assault 0 Comments 1 Week Ago

Witnesses on the scene of the incident, in separate interviews with PREMIUM TIMES had said Onyuike was critically crushed via the safety dealers who reportedly acted on Umar’s order before he became pushed away.

Umar, in line with the witnesses’ account, accused Mr Onyuike of being impolite in an stumble upon they'd shortly after the CCT chairman assaulted the plaza’s protection protect.

Onyuike had helped the CCT boss to select up his cellphone that fell to the ground without him understanding, and turned into trying to return it to him whilst the Umar started out an issue with him.

He turned into later picked up through protection marketers suspected to be the Department State Services (DSS) operatives who later surpassed him over to the police.

The police detained him from then until remaining Tuesday, absolutely violating constitutional provision that forestalls the detention of any character with out fee for extra than forty eight hours.

When requested approximately his efforts to get justice, Onyiuke stated on Monday that despite how he was overwhelmed, together with his garments torn and the cruel remedy meted out to him in detention, he would now not want to risk any other ‘problem’ from a Nigerian large guy.

He said, “Sir, I do no longer need any extra trouble from any big guy on this u . S . A .. With what I went via at some stage in last week in the detentions of the police and DSS, my brother, I turned into simplest saved by God. And I do now not want to go again to it.

“I became overwhelmed and my clothes have been torn all the way down to my underpants. When I turned into taken away to DSS custody, I changed into still crushed. They (SSS operatives) stated I brought about them body aches.

“I changed into installed a small cage; the identical location I was urinating for extra than two days before I turned into later taken to the police station.

“Whatever happened I depart it to God who has visible me through all my issues within the fingers of that big guy, (Mr Umar).”

He brought that he did not have a lawyer and his family participants from whom he should have were given guide were not resident in Abuja.

“I don’t have a legal professional, my own family are inside the village and I am no longer positive any of them knew or became privy to my ordeals,” he stated.

Speaking further about his experience, Onyiuke, added, “He said I insulted him, but I did no longer.

“All I did was to help him (Mr Umar) choose up his telephone that fell to the floor and which I again to him (Mr Umar). So I leave him to God.

“I don’t need him or every body to return returned for me or any of my buddies right here (plaza) who've been supportive and start to intimidate us.”

Despite the debts of several witnesses and the victim of the involvement of DSS operatives within the arrest and detention, the enterprise’s spokesperson, Peter Afunaya, had debunked it.

“Not real, no SSS (additionally referred to as DSS) operative did that,” he stated in a text message sent to our reporter.

Asked approximately Samuel Ihensekhien, the lawyer who broke the information of his detention to Sagwak, he stated, “I don’t realize any lawyer or all people; it became simply God that helped me all through.”

His role no longer to pursue justice contradicts that of Sagwark, the plaza’s security shield, who had Mr Ihensekhien record a petition towards Umar on the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), soliciting for a probe into the March 29 incident.

Mr Sagwak, in the April nine petition signed by his lawyer, Mr Ihensekhien, accused the CCT chairman of abuse of electricity, attack, torture, and ‘xenophobia’.

When contacted over Onyiuke’s case on Monday, Mr Ihensekhien said, “I don’t have commands for illustration from Mr Onyuike.”

“I just had to assist out of my own benevolence to get him (Mr Onyuike) out of jail,” he said, including that “But both Sargwak and the safety organisation advised me to represent them and that was why I filed a petition earlier than the National Human Rights Commission.”

“So, if he (Mr Onyuike) tactics me, as my personal exercise I might constitute him,” the attorney also stated.

Aside from the case filed on the NHRC on behalf of Mr Sargwark, a petition turned into additionally filed through  countrywide officials of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), on the Legal Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) in search of Umar’s trial for what they described as his “unlawyerly and ungentlemanly conduct”.

Umar turned into stuck on camera assaulting the safety guard, Mr Sargwak an worker of Jul Reliable Guards Services Limited.

In the five mins video pictures that went viral, the tribunal chairman turned into seen slapping and kicking the 22-12 months-old, on March 29.

According to witnesses who spoke with our correspondent, the altercation became over the gap in which the CCT chairman parked his vehicle at the premises of the mall.

Despite video proof, the CCT chairman denied the attack allegation.