Ekiti
State Police Command was in the eye of the storm on Monday, as a state
High Court awarded a sum of N20m damages against it over illegal
detention and brutalization of a woman.
The victim, Mrs Sola Aregbesola
A total sum of N20million damages has been awarded against the
Ekiti State Police Command for illegally detaining and brutalising
51-year-old Mrs Sola Aregbesola by a High Court sitting in Ikere Ekiti,
Ekiti state.
According to Punch Metro, Justice Olusegun Ogunyemi, who is the
presiding Judge, also awarded another N250,000 cost against the police
to cover the medical expenses of the woman as a result of the unlawful
detention and beating she suffered.
It was gathered that the plaintiff who is a resident of Okebedo in
Ilawe Ekiti, was beaten, tortured, wounded, chained and detained for 72
hours at Ilawe Police Station in October 2016 over an issue that
bordered on an illicit love affair between her husband and another
woman.
She had been arrested by the police, on the orders of her husband’s
mistress who had earlier attack her with hot soup, inflicting serious
bodily injuries on her and causing deformation to her person.
The mother of five claimed that she lost the use of one of her eyes
as a result of the brutality she suffered in the hands of the
policemen.
She also claimed that she was almost stripped n*ked while in custody.