Human Rights Lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has revealed identity of a two star officer in the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), who tortured him and threatened to ‘finish’ him.
The Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State, Ekaette Obot, sentenced Effiong to one-month in prison on July 27, for alleged contempt of court after the lawyer objected to the presence of two armed police operatives inside the courtroom.
Inibehe Effiong, who is also the National Legal Adviser of the African Action Congress (AAC), was in court to defend Leo Ekpenyong, a lawyer, in a libel suit filed by Udom Emmanuel, governor of Akwa Ibom.
The illegal imprisonment attracted condemnation from civil society organisations and many Nigerians.
Taking to his Twitter account, Inibehe threaded his statement, stating that he was dehumanised by Enobong Phillip Eyoren, an Assistant Superintendent with the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS).
Inibehe Effiong’s words: “Eyoren tortured and subjected me to the most humiliating and traumatic experience of my life for merely asking that the Assistant Controller of Corrections in Ikot Ekpene prison, ACC Edet Akpan, should give me time to arrange myself and have my bath.”
Inibehe explained that the officer took the request as an insult and unleashed violence on the human rights lawyer.
“As he was torturing me, he kept taunting me to look at his name. He said nothing would happen. He said repeatedly that he was going to “finish me” (a threat to my life). He even had the audacity to make a video record of me while I was being brutally shaved.
“He insisted that my beards and the hairs on my head should be completely shaved. Even when the barber (an inmate) whom he brought and ordered to shave me against my wish wanted to stop, he shouted at him to shave me completely and was mocking me as I sat on the dirty bare floor.”
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