Inibehe Effiong, Lagos based lawyer, has accused Enobong Phillip Eyoren, an assistant superintendent of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) of subjecting him to torture while in detention at the Uyo Correctional Facility .
Effiong was sentenced to one month in detention by the Akwa Ibom State chief judge for alleged contempt of court.
He was eventually released last month, after serving the one month sentence.
In a statement shared via his twitter account on Wednesday, Effiong narrated how he was tortured by the said officer, whom he said, threatened to finish him.
“I did not offend Enobong Phillip Eyoren, also known as Gideon Eyoren and goes by the Facebook name Kasiano Kasiano in anyway. Eyoren is an Assistant Superintendent 1; a two star officer in the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) working at the Ikot Ekpene Medium Custodial Centre as a Correctional Officer (warder). He is an indigene of Ikot Nko, Ididep, in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State,” he wrote.
“Eyoren tortured and subjected me to the most humiliating and traumatic experience of my life for merely asking that the Assistant Controller of Corrections in Ikot Ekpene prison, ACC Edet Akpan, should give me time to arrange myself and have my bath, as I was not a criminal, when they wanted to transfer me from Ikot Ekpene to Uyo prison on the 10th of August, 2022 which he took as an insult. ACC Edet Akpan angrily left and immediately unleashed Eyoren to deal with me. He knows why he choose Eyoren for the ‘job’.
“I never offended Eyoren or looked for his trouble. Prior to 10th August, 2022, I never had any form of confrontation or conversation with him.
“Yet, Eyoren treated me in the most violent, insolent and vindictive manner.
“As he was torturing me, he kept taunting me to look at his name. He said nothing would happen. He said repeatedly that he was going to “finish me” (a threat to my life). He even had the audacity to make a video record of me while I was being brutally shaved.
“He insisted that my beards and the hairs on my head should be completely shaved. Even when the barber (an inmate) whom he brought and ordered to shave me against my wish wanted to stop, he shouted at him to shave me completely and was mocking me as I sat on the dirty bare floor.
“The current hairs on my head and the little beards that you’re seeing on me presently started growing from 10th August. I was completely shaved.
“I expressly told Eyoren that I didn’t want to be shaved, but he became more violent. If I had physically resisted him, only God knows what would have happened.
“Eyoren grabbed me by the neck with the help of another officer, and they both dragged me by the neck from my cell in Ikot Ekepene Custodial Centre to outside where a van was stationed. I could barely breath
“It was drizzling. Yet, Eyoren did not allow me to sit inside the van. He didn’t even allow me to enter the back of the van on my own. Eyoren and the other officer carried me up and flung me inside the back of the van like a piece of unused material.
ENOBONG PHILIP EYOREN: THE NCS OFFICER WHO TORTURED ME AND HIS THREAT TO “FINISH ME”
I did not offend Enobong Phillip Eyoren, also known as Gideon Eyoren and goes by the Facebook name Kasiano Kasiano in anyway. Eyoren is an Assistant Superintendent 1; pic.twitter.com/trGj11jkKH
— Inibehe Effiong (@InibeheEffiong) September 7, 2022