Alleged SCID Torture: Defendant tells court how he lost both eyes in custody

A Minna High Court was moved to tears on Friday, after a suspect successful a long-running homicide proceedings narrated however helium allegedly mislaid some eyes pursuing torture by operatives of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) of the Niger State Police Command.

The defendant, Idris Mohammed, told Justice Mikhail Abdullahi of High Court II, Minna, during cross-examination by his counsel, Olusegun Ogunbanwo (Esq.), that helium was already serving a jailhouse word astatine the Minna Correctional Facility erstwhile helium was allegedly taken by plainclothes SCID operatives to the constabulary office for interrogation.

Mohammed said helium was handcuffed, his legs chained together, and suspended earlier being beaten successful an effort to unit a confession to an offence helium insisted helium knew thing about.

“I was taken to the situation by a Shariah Court successful Sabon-Titi, Tunga, Minna. While successful prison, immoderate plainclothes operatives came and took maine to the SCID office, wherever I was tortured. As a effect of the torture, I mislaid my 2 eyes,” helium told the tribunal done an interpreter.

Mohammed is lasting proceedings alongside 3 others implicit allegations of culpable homicide punishable by death.