TV producer, Valentine Obilor recounts how SARS officers physically assaulted him and falsely accused him of being a Yahoo boy (videos)

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TV producer, Valentine Obilor recounts how SARS officers physically assaulted him and falsely accused him of being a Yahoo boy (videos)

 

The human rights abuse that has characterised the operations of SARS officials has been brought to light once again as TV producer and music artiste, Valentine Obilor, shared his own unpleasant experience with some SARS officers in Lagos state over the weekend.

In a series of videos he posted on his IG page, Valentine narrated how he was accosted by SARS officers along Badore road in Ajah at about 12am and was asked where he was going to. Despite informing them he was on his way to a friend's house for a recording session, the SARS officers demanded to see his phone which he refused. They used their guns to hit him, beat him up, fractured his hand and accused him of being a Yahoo boy. According to Valentine, the SARS officers said he must be a Yahoo Yahoo boy for wearing dreadlocks. 

A visibly angry Valentine wrote

''(HOW SARS BULLIED ME, FRACTURED MY ELBOW, STOLE FROM ME AND CLAIMED I CANT BE ON DREADS AND NOT BE A YAHOO BOY)

How dare you attack me because of my hairstyle or my dressing ? How dare you criminalize me because of that ? OPERATION END SARS!!! SARS means SPECIAL ANTI ROBBERY SQUAD , they should attack robbers, armed criminals , they should stop harassing young innocent hardworking citizens .

Last night was one of the worst nights of my life with this criminals in uniform... If my hairstyle is the criteria for determining if I'm a cyber criminal (yahoo boy) or not, then I'm sorry! The police force needs the highest level of education . I woke up this morning with my hand and head in aches after they had hit me with their gun and at gun point taken me to ATM to withdraw my money (hard earned money) . I av gone to cut my dreads this morning, hope I'm less of a 'cyber criminal ' now right ???

At first I didn't want to post this video, but if I don't post, how would this badgeless stupid men in uniform be brought to justice or extinguished from our social life ? How?? . God punish SARS!!! God punish them in all totality .. OPERATION END SARS !!!!!???? God punish them ...''

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Ferry Gberegbe: SARS Commander denys police involvement in the death of PDP agent in Rivers

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Ferry Gberegbe: SARS Commander denys police involvement in the death of PDP agent in Rivers

 

The Rivers State Commander of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Akin Fakorede, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), has maintained that policemen did not kill an agent of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Ferry Gberegbe, during the March 9 governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state.

He declared that the late Gberegbe, who until his death was a lecturer with the Rivers State government-owned Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic, Bori-Ogoni, was a cult leader and was eliminated by cultists.

The SARS commander, while testifying before the investigating members of the Joint House of Representatives’ Committees on Army, Police, Human Rights and Justice, at a sitting in Port Harcourt, had stated that Gberegbe died of food poisoning.

However, the Rivers Chairman of PDP, Chief Felix Obuah, faulted Fakorede’s testimony before the committee members and expressed shock that the SARS commander could deny his involvement and responsibility for the barbaric act, which he claimed Fakorede personally masterminded.

Speaking in an interview with The Nation, Fakorede expressed surprise that Obuah could accuse him and some SARS operatives of killing the party’s agent.

He said: “I represented the police at the public hearing. We only called for an autopsy to be conducted to determine the death of Dr. Gberegbe.

“We also placed before the committee members, intelligence report at our disposal.

“We know for a fact that Dr. Gberegbe was not shot by the police. We have credible intelligence on the circumstances that led to his death and we simply put the intelligence in the public domain, through the committee, along with our findings.

“Why was the deceased taken to a hospital 60 kilometres away, when many well-equipped hospitals are closer to the scene of the incident?”

The SARS commander also revealed that the late lecturer died on March 16, 2019 at St. Patrick Hospital, Port Harcourt and not during the March 9 elections in BoriOgoni, as alleged.

He said: “Dr. Gberegbe was at all times a part of the plot that eventually took his life. He was killed by his friends and associates, and not by his foes. Most certainly not by SARS or any police unit or operative. He was shot at Elimgbu by pipeline, not too far from his residence along Court Road, Port Harcourt and not in Bori in Khana LGA, as alleged.

“The bullet that landed Dr. Gberegbe in the hospital was not fired from the barrel of a police riffle, but from the mouth of a locally fabricated pistol. He did not die from gunshot injury, but from cardiopulmonary arrest (heart attack) accentuated by food poisoning.

“He was a well and healthy man on the day he died. He died on March 16, 2019 at exactly 10:05 p.m., with a bowl of poisoned food in his hands. He shouted for help in the middle of a meal and gave up the ghost and that ended a long drama in which he had joined to write the script, intended by all the conspirators to cover up a huge fraud in which thieves without honour decided to outwit one another and enjoy a booty meant for many party faithful.

“Dr. Gberegbe was a leading member of Deywell cult gang. During the March 9, 2019 governorship election, his role was to coordinate and supervise the various cult groups in their assigned roles. The money for all the cult groups, running into several millions of naira, was handed over to him for disbursement to relevant actors. It was his attempt to outmaneuver members of his group that led to his death.”

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5 Police Officers Arrested For Armed Robbery In Lagos

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5 Police Officers Arrested For Armed Robbery In Lagos

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested five serving policemen over alleged robbery attempt on one Mr Immanuel James, at Ago-Palace way, Okota, a Lagos suburb.

The suspects, two Inspectors and three Sergeants were identified to be operatives attached to Special Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS), Ipakodo.

The command’s spokesman, SP Chike Oti, who confirmed their arrest to newsmen on Tuesday, said that the men were not operatives from the Federal SARS, Ikeja Unit as reported.

Oti, however, said that one Insp. Jude Akhoyemta, who was earlier mentioned among the suspects, was found to be innocent.

“In line with the directive of the Commissioner of Police Lagos State, the Command hereby informs the general public that further enquiry into the allegation of harassment of one Immanuel James Ibe-Anyanwu by SARS operatives at Ago-Palace way, Okota revealed the true identity of officers involved in the highly regrettable incident.

“Those involved are currently undergoing interrogation at the Command’s X-Squad Section and would be marched before an Adjudicating Officer at the Police Provost Department for the commencement of their orderly room trial,” Oti said.

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