Nigeria’s top human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has slammed a one billion naira lawsuit against the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, and a controversial government contractor, Emeka Offor, for the brutality meted out to an international businessman, Comrade Bony Okonkwo, who was arrested by the police on Saturday, July 13, 2013, and released after 18 days in solitary confinement. Okonkwo, a social activist and businessman based in South Africa, was arrested in his home in Ilasamanja of Lagos by a team of Special Anti-Robbery policemen over comments he made on a listserv against the shady businessman. Policemen reportedly sent from the police headquarters in Abuja handcuffed Bonny detained him in several police formations in Lagos before driving him to Abuja in the trunk of a police Prado vehicle for criticizing Offor in an online forum, according to a statement from the Falana and Falana Chambers signed by Samuel Ogala.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 03:03:41 +0000
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