A Nigerian man has committed suicide following harassment by SARS operatives which eventually made him lost $20,000 in Forex investment when he was arrested in Ogun state.
The man identified as Akinade was a student of the Federal University of Agriculture, FUNAAB, in Abeokuta. In a post he made earlier this month, he narrated how the operatives stormed his hostel and arrested him and his friends.
He pleaded for them to allow him to close his ongoing trade, which they refused until he lost the sum of money. He was reportedly paraded the following morning and forced to confess he was a fraudster.
He reportedly committed suicide today. But before his death, he dropped a cryptic post on Twitter yesterday stating it was time to say goodbye to the world.
I guess its goodbye now…no one heard my cry for justice and this had to happen haha…bye world.
— Johnson (@Akinadeoluwa17) April 21, 2020
Read his narration when he was arrested below:
It happened again tonight, I had the same nightmare that’s been reoccurring for months now since the incident happened, same faces. SARS officials in their black uniform carrying us away in the dead of the night and I wake up with serious chest pain from fear of what I was about To experience.
It happened on the 2nd of February 2020 I was in my hostel working on my post data slides because I had to present the next day when all of a sudden these SARS officials entered my room. It was around 10 pm at night and I still had my generator on.
Maybe that was why they came to my room first, they just collected my laptop and phones, my friends were also in my room, we were all told to dress up and come outside one of my friends was given a dirty slap for practically not dressing up fast enough “what did we do?”
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I kept asking. They didn’t say anything and they threatened to waste me if I didn’t stop asking silly questions. We were handcuffed like armed robbers all 17 of us, we were squeezed into small cars like goats to the slaughter, and from camp Abeokuta, we were taken down to Ibara police station.
Immediately we got there I decided to plead with who was in charge that I had a presentation in school the next day, that they shoul+d please let me go early because at that time it was 12 in the midnight already, he said I will pay 200k! Ha! For what? I told him to go through.
My phone that I am not a fraudster, that I am a forex trader he went through my phone and my friend’s phone there was nothing implicating there, except for the bank alerts and that money was not even mine, I told him they were investors money.
I forgot to mention I opened a Trade on my trading platform before they came to arrest us, I also pleaded with them to give me access to my phone so I can close the trade or something they thought I wanted to call someone and they slapped me for requesting for my phone, the trade kept running till the next day.
I slept in a cell that night for doing nothing, police will slap you and beat you, prisoners will beat you when you enter the cell too! I cried till the next morning not because I was sleeping in a cell for doing nothing but because I was on a losing trade with thousands of $ on.
The line and also because I was going to miss my project presentation which cannot be repeated. I was paraded like a thief in the morning and they were asking us what we did, with tears in my eyes I said “nothing” they still slapped me and told me to admit I’m a fraudster
Without having anything incriminating on my phone! That day I lost almost 20k$ trading and I missed my presentation in school. They still wanted to collect bail after beating and harassing us for nothing. Since then I’ve been in massive debt, I couldn’t complete my education.
And my life has been in shambles, I have receipts for everything I said on here in case anyone thinks I’m lying. Suicide has been the only thought on my mind every day. So in case I hurt myself and anyone is curious as to why I did it. This is my story.
Maybe that was why they came to my room first, they just collected my laptop and phones, my friends were also in my room, we were all told to dress up and come outside one of my friend was given a dirty slap for practically not dressing up fast enough "what did we do?" I kept ask
— Johnson (@Akinadeoluwa17) April 17, 2020
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