By Chuks Eke
The Civil Liberties Organization, CLO, Anambra state chapter has condemned in its entirety the recent torture of a woman to near death by the state Special Anti-Touting Squad, SASA.
CLO said unless Governor Chukwuma Soludo, his wife and good spirited individuals rush to the rescue of the poor woman whose name was given as Mrs. Nkemakolam Nnamani who was alleged tortured and disfigured by Special Anti Touting Squad SASA with immediate effect, with her three children, her present worsening condition might lead to her untimely death.
Recall that Mrs Nnamani, was brutalized, maltreated, assualted and humiliated for allegedly pleading to the killer squad to have mercy on an elder woman they subjected to all manners of assault on the fateful day.
Consequently, one of the squad members, rushed to Mrs Nnamani who was inside an Asaba bound commercial bus, at Upper Iweka, dragged her out of the bus and in company of other members, used pestles, clubs and machete on her and bundled her to their torture camp where she coughed out huge sum of money to regain her freedom but not with out more assaults.
She was taken to several orthopaedic hospitals and the squad visited her on a fip off that her condition was deteriorating and it gave her #50,000 and had not visited again even as her condition worsens due to lack of fund to continue her medical treatment.
State Chairman of CLO, Comrade Vincent Ezekwueme, in a swift reaction, lamented that the pathetic health condition of the woman was detoriating so much so that if urgent and immediate step is not taken, her leg might be amputated.
In a press statement jointly signed with his secretary, Chidi Mbah, tagged, “Matter of urgent and immediate public interest and importance,’ Ezekwueme decried the attitude of the government towards the plight and sufferings of the woman and her family because of her patriotism to call the agent of government to be civil, decorum and law abiding in discharge of their duties.
“The Government and public spirited individuals should come to her aid in other to save her life and family. The hapless woman has been crying and lamenting that they did that to her because nobody to speak for her as poor mother of three”.
The victim who also spoke to newsmen, lamented that there is no one to intervene on her behalf and appealed to Gov. Soludo, Civil Society Organizations and public spirited individuals to assist her in this trying and pathetic period as her children are out of school and she is yet to pay her house rent and at the same time finding it very difficult to feed her family because she is now crippled as a result of the torture.
