The 1st plaintiff alleged that while they stood outside the office she saw the AEPB
officials pulling the women out of the buses with guns pointed at them. They kept
beating them and forced them to write their names. One of the abducted women
who refuse to comply with them was jointly beaten by about 6 officials of the
AEPB. The 1st Plaintiff took pictures of the incident to document it and every
effort made by her to release some of the abducted women that night proved
abortive.
The 1st Plaintiff avers that they went to Maitama Police station to file a complaint
on the abduction. However, the police officer they met on duty by the name Mr.
Ijeoma U. Ijeoma refused to book their complaint and went further to say that the
AEPB officials were doing their job and that if it were up to him he would have
arrested all the women who accompanied the 1st Plaintiff because according to
him they looked like prostitutes. After further insults from him he instructed them
to leave and up till date he is yet to get back at them.
The 1st Plaintiff further states that some of the abducted girls were released the
next day. The detained women were not given food nor water and some of them
sustained injuries while another complained that her phone was stolen. The 1 st
plaintiff further avers that she invited the media who arrived at the scene at about
10 am but access was not given to the media crew into the premises of the AEPB.
She however went to the African Independent Television to grant an interview
and granted other interviews to other newspaper agencies present about what had
transpired.
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