On Wednesday, Ebubeagu Security Outfit agents kidnapped and tortured Chief Abia Onyike of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ebonyi State.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Onyike, a former Commissioner for Information in the state and Deputy National President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, was kidnapped at Octovia Pharmacy on Water Works Road, Abakaliki, where he was reported to have gone to buy some medications for his prescription.
Two large armed guys suspected of being Ebebeagu members walked into the pharmacy store, put him into their Sienna bus, and carried him away.
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The victim, who is a prominent spokesperson for the PDP’s governorship candidate in Ebonyi State in the 2023 general election, Dr Ifeanyi Odii, was reportedly taken to Ebubeagu Office in Abakaliki, where he was told to remove his clothes and savagely beaten up till a call for his release arrived.
In response, the state’s Ebebuagu Commander, Friday Nnanna, stated that Onyike’s detention was made at error because he was arrested in the same spot where a suspect was being pursued.
According to him, “Immediately after his name, place of origin and personality was ascertained, he was released.
“The place they said Abia was caught was where a criminal element we have been looking usually stay. Oga, we have satellite everywhere. That’s where the suspect usually come to collect arms and ammunition and rifles kept for him. He normally comes from outside the State.
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“You can asked the victim what we did immediately he was asked his name, and where he came from; We ordered them to leave him immediately. People have been putting surveillance where he was arrested. ”
Narrating his ordeal to Newsmen, Onyike said he was given over 30 slaps, while laying down naked and planks and other weapons used on him by the operatives.
He said, “As I talk to you now, I can’t hear well with my one of my ears. I was slapped over 30 times. They asked me to lay down naked and beat me up severally with different dangerous objects.
“They even threatened to shoot me and bury me there. I can’t hear well again.
“They tortured me for over one hour, until some minutes to 11pm when one of them came and said I should be released, that it was a mistaken identity.”
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