CLO Condemns Torture Of Woman By Anambra Anti-Tout Squad

By Chuks Eke

Tortured woman’s leg
The Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, Anambra state chapter, has strongly condemned the recent torture of a woman to near-death by the state’s Special Anti-Touting Squad, SASA.
CLO urged Governor Chukwuma Soludo, his wife, and others to help Mrs Nkemakolam Nnamani, who was allegedly tortured and disfigured by the Special Anti-Touting Squad SASA, and her three children. Her current condition could lead to her untimely death.
Mrs Nnamani was brutalised, maltreated, assaulted, and humiliated for allegedly pleading with the killer squad for mercy on an elderly woman they assaulted on that fateful day.
In Upper Iweka, a squad member dragged Mrs. Nnamani from a commercial bus bound for Asaba and tortured her with pestles, clubs, and a machete.
She eventually paid a large sum of money to be released, but not without further assaults.
She was taken to several orthopaedic hospitals and the squad visited her on a fip off that her condition was deteriorating.
They gave her #50,000 but have not visited her again due to a lack of funds to continue her medical treatment.
Comrade Vincent Ezekwueme, State Chairman of CLO, responded quickly, lamenting that the woman’s deteriorating health had reached the point where her leg might have to be amputated if immediate action was not taken.
In a press statement titled “Matter of Urgent and Immediate Public Interest and Importance,” Ezekwueme and his secretary, Chidi Mbah, criticised the government’s treatment of the woman and her family due to their patriotism. They urged government agents to be civil, decorum, and law-abiding in their duties.
“The government and public-spirited individuals should come to her aid to save her life and family. The unfortunate woman has been crying and lamenting that they did this to her because no one would speak for her as a poor mother of three.”
The victim, who spoke to reporters, pleaded with Gov. Soludo, Civil Society Organisations, and public-spirited individuals to help her during this difficult time. Her children are out of school, she is unable to pay her house rent, and she is struggling to feed her family due to her crippling injuries from torture.