A twitter user with the username @tobijulo91 narrated a touching story of a Nigerian man who went to buy suya at night, got arrested and was wrongly imprisoned for 5 years.
While reacting to a tweet by @Jollz complaining about Nigeria’s failed justice system, @tobijulo91 narrated the sad tale.
Quoting the tweet, @tobijulo91 narrated how a former colleague once briefed him of a very sad incident.
According his colleague, her cousin brother had gone out one night to buy suya somewhere close by.
She revealed her cousin brother never returned even after his family had searched for him everywhere that night and afterwards.
Four years later, after searching in vein, his family decided to declare him dead and buried him.
Meanwhile in the fifth year of his sudden disappearance, a certain church on outreach visited the prison where he was and he wrote his aunt’s phone number, gave it to them and pleaded with them to call her and inform her that he’s in prison.
After getting him out prison, the wrongly imprisoned ex convict revealed he got picked by some police men who raided their street on a massive arrest after a crime had been committed in the area that night.
The ex convict revealed he got transferred 5 times and also shared some terrible experiences he had as an inmate.
Read his full story below;
A former colleague told me how her cousin went out one night to buy Suya down the street and they didn’t see him again. They searched everywhere, couldn’t find him. Year 1 passed, year 2, year 3, I believe it was in year 4 they decided to declare him dead and “buried” him.
Year 5 her mum gets a call, a church had done an outreach in a particular prison and a young man threw a sheet of paper with her mum’s number on it. He begged the people to call that number as it was his Aunt’s and he was wrongly imprisoned. Luckily for him they did and her mum went to that prison and that’s how they discovered he was alive o.
After another set of wahala they finally got him out. Man was in prison for 5 years!! What happened that night?? He went to buy Suya, there was an incident, police raided the street and carried EVERYONE. He begged and tried to convince them that he wasn’t a criminal, they didn’t listen. He was transferred 5 times to different prisons. 2 times to the North and once to the east.
What he saw in prison ehn? The politics? From killing inmates because no space to wardens selling prisoners to organ traffickers. He acknowledged that it was God that kept him because he shouldn’t be alive. My colleagues mum was so upset and was even able to get 5 more people who were unjustly arrested and acquitted without trial released. See ehn Nigeria is something else o. The justice and prison system needs to be reformed. I can’t even begin to imagine what happens to female inmates and all.
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