UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION (III): A reporter’s diary — Living with a ‘mad’ cell mate, set up by prison warders, abducted by the police | TheCable bit.ly/2PbkeYR #CashAndCarryPrison #PoliceBailForSale #KeepFisayoSafe #UndercoverInvestigation Cc @MBuhari @NigeriaGov 
@MBuhari @NigeriaGov @PoliceNG @CorrectionsNg @MinOfInteriorNG @raufaregbesola @ProfOsinbajo @AmnestyNigeria @segalink @ChidiOdinkalu @fisayosoyombo @TheICIR To experience the workings of the system in its raw state, @fisayosoyombo — adopting the pseudonym Ojo Olajumoke—feigned an offence for which he was arrested and detained in police custody, arraigned in court and eventually remanded in Prison. #CashAndCarryPrison #KeepFisayoSafe
@MBuhari @NigeriaGov @PoliceNG @CorrectionsNg @MinOfInteriorNG @raufaregbesola @ProfOsinbajo @AmnestyNigeria @segalink @ChidiOdinkalu @fisayosoyombo @TheICIR In the third and final installation of the series, he documents the soft side of his time in police cell and prison, and how prisons, police and court officials conspired to abduct him after his cover was blown. thecable.ng/undercover-inv… #PoliceBailForSale #KeepFisayoSafe
@MBuhari @NigeriaGov @PoliceNG @CorrectionsNg @MinOfInteriorNG @raufaregbesola @ProfOsinbajo @AmnestyNigeria @segalink @ChidiOdinkalu @fisayosoyombo @TheICIR @freepressunltd As I lay in that warm cell in the wee small hours of Tuesday July 9, it dawned on me that surviving the days ahead would require more than brawn. thecable.ng/undercover-inv… #PoliceBailForSale #KeepFisayoSafe #CashAndCarryPrison #undercoverinvestigation
@MBuhari @NigeriaGov @PoliceNG @CorrectionsNg @MinOfInteriorNG @raufaregbesola @ProfOsinbajo @AmnestyNigeria @segalink @ChidiOdinkalu @fisayosoyombo @TheICIR @freepressunltd Five of us ‘suspects’ had crammed ourselves into that narrow, filthy cell, all wanting to get our bodies on that small mat but none fully succeeding. thecable.ng/undercover-inv… #PoliceBailForSale #KeepFisayoSafe #CashAndCarryPrison
@MBuhari @NigeriaGov @PoliceNG @CorrectionsNg @MinOfInteriorNG @raufaregbesola @ProfOsinbajo @AmnestyNigeria @segalink @ChidiOdinkalu @fisayosoyombo @TheICIR @freepressunltd MY CELL MATE ‘RUNS MAD’
Two of the next three days proved tumultuous, even for the police officers. It started over the night between Wednesday and Thursday, at about 1am. Three of us were in the entire cell, but only Uchenna and I shared the inner cell. #PoliceBailForSale
Two of the next three days proved tumultuous, even for the police officers. It started over the night between Wednesday and Thursday, at about 1am. Three of us were in the entire cell, but only Uchenna and I shared the inner cell. #PoliceBailForSale
Suddenly, he hit me in my deep sleep and asked me to look at a hole in one of the walls of the cell. “There’s an eagle in that place,” he howled, spilling a sachet of water in that direction. “Can you see it? That’s the eagle!” thecable.ng/undercover-inv… #CashAndCarryPrison
It marked the onset of a two-day turbulence in the cell. Uchenna sprang up and began sprinkling water in all three rooms of the cell, casting and binding, shouting and crying out prayers. bit.ly/2PbkeYR #PoliceBailForSale #keepfisayosafe #CashAndCarryPrison
“Jesus is here, Jesus is here,” he screamed at a time. “Leave this place, you demon! No space for you here. I am no longer with you. I’m a new man now. Jesus is here!” Uchenna went on somewhat schizophrenically for the next six to seven hours. thecable.ng/undercover-inv…
Over the course of my seven days in prison, it was, quite simply, too easy for me to separate the corrupt warders, who were in the majority, from the clean ones. The corrupt ones were usually pensive and jittery whenever they came in contact with me. #CashAndCarryPrison
Assistant Chief Sunkanmi Ijadunola, for example, the word in prison was that he was one of the numerous warders for sale. And, boy, was he vicious with the cane and, latterly, the stick! If he was the only warder on duty, he would surely have beaten me to death! #keepfisayosafe
@fisayosoyombo @MinOfInteriorNG @CorrectionsNg I remember he flogged me from his office to the records office and back to another office just by the prison gate, where an apparently senior warder appealed to him to stop the beating and remove my handcuff. thecable.ng/undercover-inv… #keepfisayosafe #CashAndCarryPrison
@fisayosoyombo @MinOfInteriorNG @CorrectionsNg My release from prison was complicated. The prison officials at Ikoyi desperately wanted my bail to sail through; the more I stayed, they reasoned, the higher the chances I could implicate them. thecable.ng/undercover-inv… #CashAndCarryPrison #keepfisayosafe #policebailforsale
@fisayosoyombo @MinOfInteriorNG @CorrectionsNg But the ones in court, specifically the corrupt ones I filmed, preferred that I rot in jail. The latter group would then work closely with officials at the Magistrate Court, Yaba, to keep me back in prison. Read more👉thecable.ng/undercover-inv… #CashAndCarryPrison #policebailforsale
