Cyrus Onu, a lawyer for the female National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Jennifer Elobor, has narrated what led to the female corps member being stripped and assaulted by security agents in Anambra State.
Onu added that besides the attack captured on video, the security agents also threatened to r@pe and k!ll Ms. Elobor for speaking out during the incident.
According to Onu, the armed security agents stormed the corpers’ lodge wearing mufti and accused the corps members of being fraudsters. Since the agents had guns and were not wearing uniforms, the corps members were alarmed.
“They [security agents] were banging the door, and Jennifer was trying to open the door, and they just kicked the door, and it almost hit their face,” Onu narrated on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Wednesday, August 20.
“Most of them were masked in mufti with guns, so you can imagine how scared the kids [corps members] were.
“They [security agents] didn’t give any identification. They just said, ‘Come down, come down. You’re all thieves! You’re all ‘Yahoo’ people!’
“When they tried to drag them downstairs, Jennifer was insisting that if they must take them anywhere, they should allow them [corps members] to call their LGI [Local Government Inspector] because the corps members did not know who the operatives were.”
“That was when they started pouncing on her. They made derogatory comments, asking her who gave her the right as a lady to speak to them anyhow. They started beating her.
“She asked them to allow her to change into something appropriate, and they said, ‘That thing you’re trying to cover, we’ll see it today. We’ll beat you up, we’ll r@pe you, k!ll you, and dump you, and nobody can say anything,” Onu added.
The lawyer also claimed that the Anambra security agents threatened to k!ll Ms. Elobor’s colleagues for trying to defend her.
A video that went viral on August 19 shows the moment the operatives armed with guns stormed the corps members’ apartment in the Oba community of Anambra State.
The agents who were members of the Operation ‘Udo Ga-Achi,’ also known as the Agunechemba Vigilante Group, were seen beating Elobor and tearing her clothes.
The State Government, through the Special Adviser to Governor Soludo on Community Security, Ken Emeakayi, while condemning the assault on the corps member, said on Tuesday that those involved had been arrested.
