A seven month old
baby boy, Uchenna Nwoye, his parents and two others were allegedly
arrested and detained by the police in Onitsha over N20 000 debt owed by the
parents.
They were arrested at Ifitedunu in Dunukofia local government area of
Anambra State by policemen from Fegge Police Stattion, Onitsha, for failure to
pay the N20,000 to a woman Uchenna’s father allegedly did business with.
Narrating the incident to newsmen, yesterday, in Onitsha, mother of
the boy, 23-year-old Mrs. Ukamaka Nwoye, said they were whisked away by the
policemen without any reason, adding that they were fast asleep
when heavily armed policemen numbering over 20 forced open their door and
arrested all the occupants, including the 7-months-old boy.
She said: “On November 7, at about 2.30am, we were all asleep when
suddenly, some policemen came into our compound and forced their way into
our house and arrested us, including my 7-month-old baby.They took us to
their bus and whisked us away to a place we later found out was Fegge Police
Station, Onitsha.
“They denied us the opportunity to call any of our relations. It was one
of the policemen who saw how my child was almost suffocating inside the
cell that secretly helped me to call one of my brothers and I told
him where we were being detained. We spent over seven days in
detention.”
Vanguard
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