LAWYER LEFT FOR DEAD AFTER ALLEGED BRUTAL BEATING BY 5 SOLDIERS IN DELTA STATE

One Sunny Ekwe, a lawyer based in Ovorie Ethiope East LGA of Delta State was

  allegedly beaten by 5 soldiers who left him to die after they fractured his spinal cord.

According to Omemimoro Maxwell Ogedegbe, who posted the photos on Facebook, 

the incident happened on the evening of March 11^th

"Two of them arrested and still in the military custody of the 222 battalion 

Agarho Utor, Ughelli, delta state. On the 

11th of March 2017 at about 7pm this lawyer went to visit a relative at the

 Okpara waterside when suddenly as he was 

about to leave a young boy demanded he should follow him to meet some other

 boys seated in a distance that was a bit dark.

"In the process of resisting the boy, the boy called the other four guys who

 descended on the lawyer and subjected him to 

the most crudest humiliation and brutality ever and only abandoned him to 

die in a close dried up drain. Because of the 

atrocities of the boys in the area no body in the community could intervene as

 they are young soldiers. The lawyer was 

rushed to the hospital at Isiokolo but referred to Orerokpe after he was revived.

"The police of Isiokolo made first failed attempt at arresting the boys but they 

resisted and the police chickened out 

claiming as military officers they must be dealt with by their command. It took 

the intervention of my humble self and

 a serving magistrate to prevail on the DPO who mobilised about 20 mobile police

 personel to the community and luckily 

the boys were at the verge of moving to their station and only two were apprehen

ded as three had left before police arrival .

"They were arrested and formally handed over to the commanding officer of the 

222 battalion where they have been in custody till date.

 They are persons who just returned from 9months military training. We salute

 the reawaken dogged Ness of the DPO and the forthright 

Ness of the commanding officer who have sent for the return of the fleeing officer.

 Truly they have realised this is a democracy 

where pen is mightier than the sword."