Prince Gwamnishu Harrison, the President of Behind Bars Initiative, an NGO, has shared online the touching story of a young woman who was held in Kirikiri prisons for six years for refusing a police officer sex.
According to Harrison, the young woman he identified simply as Amanda was implicated in a case of illegal gun possession by her boyfriend.
He revealed that though the boyfriend confessed to the crime and exonerated the young girl, the police officer in charge of the case still demanded for sex from the young lady and refused to release her when she didn’t oblige.
Read the full story below:
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HER STORY
Beautiful Amanda was 18 as at 2011, she left me in SARS custody and I thought she was gone.
Later saw her in 2012 in Kirikiri female prison during one of our Prison Fame Talent Hunt Rehearsal.
After I was brought back from Police College Clinic Ikeja, I was giving a bed to sleep at the corridor. Right there in cell 3, I saw Amanda, young and beautiful and was tempted to ask` her crime. She told me all that happened.
‘Amanda, a student of Lagos State University on 24th December, 2011, left for a party with her boyfriend. They stopped a Taxi and entered.
At a police checkpoint, one of the passengers sitting close to Amanda’s boyfriend told the police he noticed one of the passengers was hiding something under the seat . The police searched him, searched the car and discovered a Gun (Pistol). Amanda’s boyfriend hid it.
Driver and all the passengers were taken to the police station and they all wrote statement. Driver was released and the other passengers but Amanda and her boyfriend were detained for further investigation.
Case transferred to SARS Ikeja and charged for Conspiracy/Armed Robbery. Though the boy confessed to be a cultist and also told them Amanda knows nothing about the gun or know his cult activities.
She said to me “At night, they will call me out to question me about my boyfriend. From there he (IPO) demanded for sex. My refusal to give in landed me in kirikiri’
Last week, Amanda was freed after Six (6) years Awaiting trial, boyfriend convicted for Unlawful Possession of Fire Arms.
Yesterday, she came to visit to say “THANK YOU”
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