Opinion: The Oppression Of Victims, By ‘Fisayo Soyombo
. A last-minute twist of seemingly impossible events had climaxed with an order for the Divisional Police Officer to release me. With the DPO unavailable at the office, the responsibility fell on another officer, a man who claimed to have studied Law and built some level of media experience along the way. I’ll conceal his identity. Rather than promptly comply with the release instruction, the officer first launched a tirade against us.
Familiar fable. I’d also heard that line at Ikoyi Prison the previous week. After my cover was blown in prison, a powerful warder — he alone ran the only two public phone booths serving more than 3,000 inmates in Ikoyi — wondered what manner of corruption among warders was worth investigating: “If you want to investigate corruption, is the prison the right place to come? Got to Abuja; that’s where the real corruption is happening.
Unfortunately for everyone who’s played the victimhood card around me, I’ve had so many encounters with oppressive victims. The Pedro police officer, for instance, didn’t know that two hours before his long-winding speech, while some of his men were preparing to hide me in their cell overnight, some of those ‘victims’ spent their evening harassing a motorcycle rider whose wife had just put to bed.
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