Some naval ratings enforcing the lockdown order on Bonny Island, Rivers State, allegedly tortured an entrepreneur, Justus Jim-Halliday, for attempting to go to a neighbour’s house.
gathered that the 29-year-old Justus was forced into a gutter and ordered to swim in it.The victim told our correspondent that he was also flogged with horsewhips.
“I told them that I wanted to get my phone charger from a friend, whose house was just a few metres away. The rating I was talking to started laughing at me and said that what I wanted to do was not an essential duty. “One of them cocked his gun and threatened to shoot me and I made a sound with my mouth and a high ranking officer asked what I wanted to do and asked that I follow him and ordered me to lie in the stagnant water and use my tongue to lick the water. He later put a pair of handcuffs on my hands while I remained in the gutter.
Reacting to the allegations, the spokesperson for the Nigerian Navy, Bonny Island, Sub-Lieutenant Oluwatosin Omole, claimed that Justus was adamant when he was asked to return home, adding that the ratings whipped him in accordance with the directive of the Rivers State Government.
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