A family has discovered that their missing son who was sent to buy suya and thought dead, held a funeral for after searching for him for five years has been in prison.
According to the Twitter user, Tobijulo who narrated the incident, she stated that the young man was sent to buy suya but the police raided the place and were picked up.
He was arrested and was never arraigned, transferred from prison to prison until a church outreach came and he slipped his mum’s phone number to one of them.
She wrote: “A former colleague told me how her cousin went out one night to buy Suya down the street and they didn’t see him again. They searched everywhere, couldn’t find him. Year 1 passed, year 2, year 3, I believe it was in year 4 they decided to declare him dead and “buried” him.
“Year 5 her mum gets a call, a church had done outreach in a particular prison and a young man threw a sheet of paper with her mum’s number on it. He begged the people to call that number as it was his Aunt’s and he was wrongly imprisoned. Luckily for him they did and her mum went to that prison and that’s how they discovered he was alive o.
“After another set of wahala, they finally got him out. The man was in prison for 5 years!! What happened that night?? He went to buy Suya, there was an incident, police raided the street and carried EVERYONE. He begged and tried to convince them that he wasn’t a criminal, they didn’t listen.
“He was transferred 5 times to different prisons. 2 times to the North and once to the east. What he saw in prison then?”
“The politics? From killing inmates because of no space to wardens selling prisoners to organ traffickers. He acknowledged that it was God that kept him because he shouldn’t be alive.
“My colleagues mum was so upset and was even able to get 5 more people who were unjustly arrested and acquitted without trial released.
“See ehn Nigeria is something else o. The justice and the prison system needs to be reformed. I can’t even begin to imagine what happens to female inmates and all.”
