…We’re Investigating Allegation – Brigade Commander
BEVERLY HILLS, November 22, (THEWILL) – The Army has been accused of extra-judicial killing by the Bundigari community in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital.
Citing the alleged torture of a 26-year-old Ibrahim Bala, who died after he was arrested during an army raid in the community, members of the community, at a media briefing on Sunday, alleged that Ibrahim was brutalised by the military and could not make it to the hospital after he was released.
Spokesman of the community, Ali Useni, alleged that: “The military after serious torture of Ibrahim and the other six people that were arrested called us and handed them over to us but the torture on Ibrahim by the military was too much that he died before we could got him to the Gen. Sani Abatcha Specialist hospital.”
Responding to the allegation, spokesman of the 27 Task Force Brigade Damaturu, Lt. George Okupe, who denied knowledge of the death of the young man, explained that the deceased and others were arrested for violating the curfew imposed on the area.
“As far as I know, those arrested were curfew breakers but I don’t have knowledge that one of the people died because the information I got is that those boys were released this morning and none was reported to have died,” Okupe said.
Okupe however disclosed that following the accusation from the community, the commander of the 27 Task Force Brigade has ordered an investigation of the matter.
