Wife of a victim of Special
Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) brutality, Mrs Chidinmma Precious Edozieuno has
recounted to the Anambra Judicial panel on activities of the unit and how men
of the unit took away her husband in 2017 and told her to kiss him goodbye.
Mrs Edozieuno who petitioned the
panel and also appeared for testimony prayed the panel to give her reasonable
compensation for the loss of her husband and properties.
She told journalists in an
interview that her husband, a businessman who lived in Benin Republic, Mr
Johnson Edozienu had returned to Nigeria to visit her and her newborn baby when
he was taken away by SARS officials.
“We were in our house in Awka
that fateful day in August 2017 when some gunmen broke into our house and took
my husband. They also took away almost all our household properties and told me
to go and marry another man that this one is as good as dead.
“They said my husband was a
kidnapper. I did not even know where they came from, and at first, I didn’t
even know they were policemen.
“With the help of a friend, who
is a police officer, we started looking for my husband. He took me to many
police stations to know if they had him, but none of them had him. We went to
Awkuzu SARS office, and that was where I saw three of the men who came and
arrested my husband.
“I took a lawyer and we went to
court. It was in court that the counsel representing SARS told us that my
husband was dead. They said he was a kidnapper. I dated my husband for a long
time before we got married. He is not a kidnapper. I lived in Benin and that
was where we knew each other. I later relocated to Nigeria. My husband is from
Aguleri,” she said.
She listed items collected from
her home to include; a refrigerator, television set, a generator set, laptop,
iPhone and Wifi.
She prayed the judicial panel to
give her considerable compensation for her husband who is already dead and
whose life can not be restored. She also asked that the body of her husband be
given to her for burial and compensation for the household items taken from her
home.
Chairman of the panel, Rtd
Justice V.N Umeh, however, assured Edozieuno that the petition was
well-received and that it would go into investigation and make recommendations,
after which, they would invite her.
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