his passport can be returned to him. He offered to pay the sum in Naira equivalent
as he did not have up to the required sum in CFA.
On failing to fulfill their demands, about four officers jointly gave him a beating of
a life time using their boots to pound on his chest until he began to vomit blood. He
sustained injuries and cuts on the head, hands, elbow, shoulder, eyes, lungs, ribs,
chest and stomach.
After he was beaten, the most senior officer who was at the scene ordered that they
should throw him into a lonely shallow cell and seize his passport. He was locked in
a cell and detained for several hours without food or water and in a pool of his own
blood. This detention lasted for about five hours before he was released and his
passport was returned stamped to enable him proceed on his journey.
When he arrived the Seme border that night, he reported the incident to the Nigerian
Immigration Services and the Officers of the Nigerian Immigration cleaned him up
and administered first-aid on him. An officer Mr. Oswald Okon Edet was appointed
by the Chief Inspector of Immigration to see to his welfare and accompany him back
to Cotonou to formally report the incident.
On arriving his home in Abuja, he presented himself at the Kubwa General Hospital,
Abuja where he received treatment. Since the incident happened, he has suffered and
has continued to suffer from post-psychosomatic trauma. This resulted to sleepless
nights and horrible nightmares of the horror he endured from the Defendants
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