This story will make you CRY. We know President Buhari is really not
expected to get involved in matters like this, but because we know he is
a good man, a man that likes to help others get justice, we implore our
amiable, father-figure president to please ask that this case be
investigated. Igbobi Beauty Uzezi needs JUSTICE. You can’t be a young
woman and you will read this report and not CRY, You can’t be a woman, a
mother and read this and not cry. Even the wife and daughters of the
man she is accusing will read this and cry. It is HEARTBREAKING! It is
INHUMAN and no one deserves this.
A life is being destroyed. A young girl is dying quietly in her own country. I mean where else should
she
reside, if not her fatherland? She was born in Nigeria. Was she
expected to relocate to London/America to get her desired life?
This is where we need every human right activist
to STAND. Her face is OUT, it’s not a rumour, it’s not a ‘made up
story’… she is out there and ready to speak. This is no longer a paper
work, where you talk and say you are fighting for the helpless. This is
when you are needed. Please help Igbobi. She can’t be left alone like
this. Too sad! Her story after the cut.
When the chair, Committee for the Defence of
Human Rights, CDHR, Delta State, Mr. Benefit Orugbo, called me on phone,
about a fortnight ago, and said that he had a spine chilling case of
human rights abuse in his hands, I did not understand the brutality of
the matter and almost ignored the issue.
However, it was not until Warri Reporter, EGUFE
YAFUGORHI, detailed to meet the victim at an agreed venue reported his
encounter with Igbobi Beauty Uzezi, an Air Police of the Nigerian
Air-force, NAF, with Personal Service Number, NAF10/25157F, that the
reality dawned on me.
Uzezi, who hails from Bayelsa state, revealed
that an Air-force officer (names withheld) drugged, raped and infected
her with a Sexually Transmitted Diseases, STD, and the said officer
detained and tortured her through proxies for daring to expose him and
finally got her dismissed from the Airforce.
The air-force officers she complained to and
sought help before the hammer fell on her, queried why she chose to make
trouble with the officer, pointing out that she was not the only female
personnel to pass through the ordeal.
They detained her in a cell with a mad woman,
chained her to the bed in the hospital, locked for several days without
food to force her to forgo justice. She refused to surrender and was
court marshaled after she threatened to shoot one of the air-force
officers used to intimidate her, who allegedly wanted to disarm her.