Posted by By SEYE OJO, Ibadan on
For the third time within a week, the Oyo State Police Command has arrested 11 suspects over operation of a torture camp at Olore in Ibadan and rescued no fewer than 92 inmates whose ages ranged from 10 to 60 years.
…Oyo police nab 11 suspects over illegal Torture, rescue 92 inmates
For the third time within a week, the Oyo State Police Command has arrested 11 suspects over operation of a torture camp at Olore in Ibadan and rescued no fewer than 92 inmates whose ages ranged from 10 to 60 years.
The rescue operation came barely a week after the arrest of one Alfa Abdul-Ganiyu Imoniyi, the owner of a torture camp situated at Ile-Tuntun, Oke-Eleta, Sanyo area, and one other person at Orogun area, for torturing one person to death in the name of religion, both in Ibadan.
Meanwhile, Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, Alhaji Adul-Azeez Arisekola Alao, had a closed-door meeting with the Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of the command, Prince Udom Ekpoudom and other top police brass at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) office, Dugbe in Ibadan yesterday, shortly before the suspects and the rescued victims were paraded before newsmen. Alhaji Arisekola Alao, however, did not speak to the press when he came out from the meeting.
While parading the suspects before newsmen at the SARS office on yesterday, Ekpoudom disclosed that Alhaji Arisekola Alao did not come to plead for the release of the suspects but as a philanthropist.
Ekpoudom further disclosed that Alao promised to settle the hospital bills of the haggard-looking and hungry victims whose genitals were decaying and stinking with their body surface covered by rashes. However, he noted, they appeared to be mentally sound rescued inmates. According to him, the muslim leader also promised to help re-settle them.
There was mild drama when the gesture of Alao was announced to the rescued victims, who vehemently objected to it, describing the promise as a ploy to return them to the torture camp the second time. They pleaded that the police should hand them over to their parents.
Ekpoudom explained that based on a tip-off, the a joint team from the command's Special Anti-Robbery Squad and Monitoring Unit stormed the camp at Plot One, Aga
Layout, Olore Bus Stop, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ojoo, Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State and arrested the suspects with 92 inmates.
Sunday Sun learnt from six of the female hostages that they were subjected to series of sexual acts against their wishes. They alleged that illegal abortions were carried out on the pregnant inmates in the camp where human beings were shrunk to living skeletons with severe burns and rashes all over their bodies.
'A number of hostages rescued from the camp stood at 92, the suspects are 11. We discovered that a lot of inmates had been tortured to death in that camp and buried without informing the police. Some corpses would be cooked and shared among the inmates as food.
Testimony reveals that the captives whose ages range from 10 to 60 years were administered concoctions made from water with which dead inmates were washed," Ekpoudom stated.