Illegal Detention Camp: Inmates Raped, Tortured To Death

By Adebayo Waheed - 16.02.2008

THE Oyo State Police Command has uncovered an illegal detention camp in Ibadan, just as 25 inmates were released on Friday. The state Police Commissioner, Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) Udom Ekpoudom, while parading the inmates at the Iyaganku Police Station on Friday, said the illegal detention camp was discovered following a tip-off.

The police boss, who described it as a sad story, said policemen stormed the detention camp located at Eleta, Ile Titun area of the state capital. The inmates were chained so that they would not escape from the camp.

He said it was discovered that most of the inmates were tortured to death and buried without any report to the police.

According to him, the inmates, whose ages ranged from 13 and 25 years, were given concoction made of water and their excreta.

The female inmates, the police commissioner said, had their private parts shaved, while the owners of the place had sexual intercourse with them.

After taking the concoction, he said the inmates would be unconscious for weeks, after which they would not remember where they came from.

While stressing the determination of the command to curb crimes in the state, Ekpoudom said the inmates had been released.

The owner of the illegal detention camp, Alfa Abdul Ganiy Imoniyi, while speaking with newsmen, said the place was called Mondrusat Abdul Ganiy and not an illegal detention camp.

He explained that some of the inmates who were brought to the camp by their parents were sick and he was using prayers and water to heal them. He denied that the inmates were maltreated as they claimed.

According to him, “It is after they must have been taken to church without remedy that their parents bring them to me for treatment.

“We pray to God for them. It is not true that we give them excreta,” he said.