Man Battles To Live After Policeman And Army Officer’s Beating (See Photo)

A 35 year old man, Yakubu Abu, is currently battling to stay alive at the hospital where he was rushed to after he was brutalised by security personnel allegedly attached to Olam Farm at Rukubi in Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.
Abu told our correspondent that he was first beaten by a policeman attached to the farm, while he was discussing with his kinsmen at Adori. According to Abu, on sighting him, the policeman demanded to know what he was doing there and before he answered, the policeman slapped him and started beating him without provocation.
The victim, who spoke on his hospital bed at Hiltop Clinic and Maternity Centre, Shine in Lafia, addedd that an Army officer with a rank of a lieutenant (name withheld ), who the policeman handed him over to, beat him mercilessly.
Abu alleged that soldiers conveyed him to Taimako Clinic and Maternity Centre in Doma in a military van when the officer discovered that he was unconscious after beating him. A source said that after the inhuman treatment meted out on Abu, the officer offered N30,000 to settle his medical bills and another N5,000 for feeding at the hospital.
Abu was later referred to Hiltop Clinic and Maternity Centre at Shinge for treatment. Abu was in severe pains when our correspondent visited the hospital yesterday. The doctor in -charge of Hiltop Clinic and Maternity Center, Dr. Joseph Ewache, explained that Abu was referred to his clinic on the grounds that he was beaten by security men.
He said the victim was due for X- ray to establish the cause of the nagging pain in his waist. Efforts to speak with the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Ismaila Numan, on the matter were unsuccessful as he neither picked his calls nor replied a text message sent to his mobile phone at press time. Also, efforts to contact authorities of 177 Guards Battalion, Keffi, were unsuccessful

Source:- Newtelegraphonline