#ENDSARS Panel: I met my brother bleeding from ears, mouth, nose- Gombe man recounts ordeal of Police brutality
Chima Azubuike, Gombe
Abubakar Muhammad, has explained what led to the death of his brother Aliyu Muhammad, indicting some members of the Nigeria Police Force, Kumo Divisional Police station, Akko LGA, Gombe, over an alleged rape case.
Muhammad, disclosed this on Thursday, at the state high court, venue of the Gombe state commission of inquiry into Human Rights Violations by the Disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and Other Nigeria Police Units/Security Agencies in the State.
He noted that he resisted every attempt made by the police to ensure that he signed undertaking that his deceased brother will be returned to the station after treatment.
According to Muhammad, “My brother was arrested on the 24th of June 2019, over a case of rape, but I could not go because I was invigilating exam in school. But i called my other brother Umaru who was a former constabulary.
“It was the following day 25th, I visited the station but two policemen met me at the gate to the Kumo divisional police station took me close to the court in Kumo. They asked me to sign that my brother will be returned to the station, when I refused to sign they led me to him after so much resistance, then my brother was found behind the counter on bare floor, with blood coming out from nose, mouth and ear. I noticed that his trouser was stained with ‘shit’ excrete. Then I called him three times, shook him to respond but there wasn’t any response.”
Muhammad who urged the Justice Sa’ad Mohammed led panel to grant the family and his community justice, added that his brother was successfully taken to the hospital “Prior to the arrest of my brother, he was healthy and strong. The police abandoned us with the responsibility of paying for his treatment, Aliyu Muhammad died because of rounds of beating he received from the police officers in Kumo divisional police station.”
The panel has adjourned sitting to 11th of January 2021.
