Police tortured me, collected N100,000, alleged I was gay – Victim
Punch Newspapers Sections Adeyinka Adedipe, Benin A Benin-based tailor in his mid-30s, Johnson Eze, on Monday told the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses of how the police arrested him over an allegation that he was gay, tortured and forcefully extorted N100, 000 from him. Eze, who said he was detained at the Iyekogba Police Station in Benin on the orders of the Area Commander for three days, alleged that he was abused and coerced to sign a statement already prepared by the police. Similarly, two other victims, Hyacinth Inhanrebhor and Pascal Omozee, al...