Reported By A Citizen Reporter
A High Court sitting in Ogidi, Anambra State has ordered the officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and an officer of the Nigerian Police Force to pay the sum of N5 million Naira as compensation to Ugochukwu Oraefo for extortion, illegal arrest, unlawful detention and torture.
Mr Ugochukwu Oraefo who is an Onitsha based businessman was sometime last year whisked away from his factory by men of Special Anti-robbery Squad to their office at Awkuzu, where he was unlawfully detained, subjected to excruciating torture and criminally extorted the sum of Six Million Naira (N6,000,000.00) as ransom from him.
Consequently, Mr Ugochukwu, through his lawyer, Justus Ijeoma, the Executive Director of International Human Rights and Equity Defence Foundation (I-REF) instituted a fundamental right enforcement action against the Respondents.