Hajara Ismail,53 ,mother of 30 year old man, Ibrahim Kampanlala,has accused the Police in Bauchi for torturing her son to death over 3 stolen chickens in Bauchi.
Ismail,whose son’s body was brought to her house by six policemen who accused him of stealing chickens from a retired Police Officer, said that her son was innocent of the accusation.
She said ‘ They told me that some boys went and stole chickens and they brought 3 of the chickens for him to help them keep. One of them even told my son to slaughter the chickens for him,but he said no and the boy even abused him so he left the chickens and went to his place of work and never touched any of them, infact one of the chickens was dying and so one boy quickly slaughtered it and kept it for the supposed owner.it was as a result of that that the boys who stole the chickens were arrested and they confessed that the chickens were with Ibrahim, that was how he was implicated in the case.”
The woman said if her son had committed any offence,it was the duty of the police to arrest him and charge him to court and not to kill him the way they did and asked that the perpetrators be brought to book.
She explained that eyewitnesses had informed her that when the police came to arrest her son, he defended his innocence in the crime but the police left and came back reinforced and started torturing him to death.
” They told me that when the police came to arrest him, he argued with them that he was not a thief,So they argued about it for a while.Then they went and came back with more policemen in a Hilux shortly after the Friday prayers, immediately they went to him in Doya,they pounced in him and started beating him and broke his head and that was how they were able to go with him in their vehicle.”.
The mother of the deceased claimed that her son who was her breadwinner, worked as a miner in Burra town,and that he came home following the ongoing pandemic which affected his job.
According to her on returning from the town he worked, he discovered that his sister who was married had been divorced and had moved back home so he decided to give her his room and went to stay with his friends in Doya adding that she feels bitter and traumatised by how they brought the corpse of her son home.
