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A woman identified as Mrs. Nkemakolam Nnamani, while narrating her experience after she cautioned some yet-to-be identified members of the Anambra State Anti-Touting Squad from misconduct, said that one of the squad members rushed to the bus where she was sitting, dragged her out, and started using a pestle on her. She said she was beaten and brutalized by the SASA squad on her way to work at Upper Iweka, Onitsha, near the Niger bridge head.
Nkemakolam Nnamani said that after she was brutalized by the squad, they bundled her into their vehicle and took her to their camp, where she was made to pay a huge sum of money to have freedom.
As reported by The Punch News, Mrs. Nkemakolam Nnamani, the victim said, "I was in a commercial vehicle going to Asaba that fateful day. The bus was still loading at the park when I looked from the window and saw SASA officials in their uniforms and combat trousers beating up an elderly woman with pestles and subjecting the woman to all manner of assault. As they were pounding the elderly woman for an undisclosed reason, I pleaded with them to leave her alone, but unknown to me, one of the squad members rushed to the bus where I was sitting, pulled me down, dragged me out, and started using a pestle on me."
She continued, "After brutalizing me and battering me with a pestle on my legs, he bundled me into their vehicle and took me to their torture camp, where I was made to cough up a huge sum of money to regain my freedom, but not without more assaults and injuries they inflicted on me.”