One of the protesters in the #EndBadGovernance nationwide protest in August, Khalid Aminu, has disclosed how operatives of the Department of State Services arrested, detained and tortured him for 68 days.
The Engineer disclosed this on: “Inside Sources With Laolu Akande,” a socio-political programme aired on Channels Television on Friday.
Aminu said: “They (DSS operatives) blocked all of us at the NEPA Roundabout and packed about 11 of us on the day three of the protests (August 3) and took us to their command.”
The protester, whose face is still plastered following his ordeal in the hands of the DSS, added: “They kept me in detention from August 3 to October 17.
“For 68 days, I was in the custody of the DSS minus one week when we were taken to the correctional centre after we were taken to court in Kaduna.
“When we were in detention, they kept bringing in more and more people and the number accumulated to about 39 of us.
“What I went through, what we went through was inhuman, I can’t even begin to tell you everything.
“On the 3rd (of August), they arrested us at NEPA Roundabout.
“There and then they started beating us.
“Boots, kicks, and all that.
“Then they pushed all of us into their Hilux, some into their SUVs, and then we went down to the Command.
“When we got there, the first thing I received was a strong cane, like an armoured cable that they used.
“If I pull up my chest, you will see.
“They started beating me.
“I was flat down and they were blasting me with all forms of sticks, armoured cables, everything you can think of.
“Then they took me to a garden with a sharp grass carpet.
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“They asked us to pull our shirts and asked us to lie down.
“They poured water on me while I lay on this sharp grass.
“They were beating me and told me to roll from one side to another.
“I rolled from one end to another with water on my body.
“All sorts of insects were on this grass.
“So, it was double penetration.
“It was terrible.
“That continued for about an hour.
“Then they asked us to crawl in a gutter and we came out and they asked us to look into the sun.
“We were there for another hour.
“It became different type of torture after that day.
“From what you eat, psychologically, you cannot be stable.”
Aminu, who was accused of unlawful assembly and flying Russian flags, said of the allegation against himself and his colleagues: “There was nothing like the Russian flag in the first five days of the protests when we were arrested.”
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