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How EFCC men attacked, injured FRSC official, brother in night raid

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How EFCC men attacked, injured FRSC official, brother in night raid

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A Federal Road Safety Corps in Enugu Sunday Odo have lamented an alleged night raid attack on him and relatives by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Odo, a newly transferred FRSC official, was allegedly attacked by the EFCC official alongside his brother, Divine Nwoye, who is the Executive Director, Divine Rice Producers, a company based in Taraba State.

The victims, Nwoye and Odo are said to be currently in the hospital receiving treatment over the attack by the EFCC officials.

While describing the attack as ‘wicked and unprofessional,’ the victims said that till date, they had not been told their offences or why their apartments were raided and the doors and windows destroyed.

The victims who spoke with Punch said they were severely injured by the EFCC operatives.

According to Nwonye “I was sleeping around 3am on Thursday when I heard bangs on the gate. I woke up and because I am living on the third floor of a three-storey building at the New Haven Extension, Enugu, I peeped through the window and saw two commuter Hiace buses outside the gate and saw people scaling the perimeter fence.

“I was so terrified and there was no light. I was confused and I peeped through the window again; they had opened the gate and some were climbing with a ladder to the first floor and started breaking windows and doors.

“They were moving from one apartment to another. I was confused and I woke my children, my wife and my brother, who works with the FRSC, and we started praying.”

He added, “We thought they were armed robbers, because they were not in uniform. We were praying until they got to my apartment, broke the iron doors and came in.

“They ransacked the apartment. While we were lying face down, they started hitting me and my eight-year-old son with the iron pipes they were carrying.”

He stated that when they got down, they saw some people in mobile police uniform wielding AK-47 rifles, adding that before they broke into his apartment, he had called the New Haven Police Division, but policemen did not come until they had been dragged into the attackers’ vehicle.

“They did not tell us who they were until we found ourselves at the Enugu zonal office of the EFCC. When we disembarked from the bus, they took my phone and started pressing it and after a while, it was returned to me and they asked me to go. They seized my farm implement,” he added.

Odo said, “The EFCC operatives said they beat us because we didn’t open the door.”

Meanwhile, the spokesperson for Enugu zonal office of the EFCC, Mrs. Bethel Ude, when contacted said she didn’t have any related information.