After about 48 hours in detention, police free Globalupfront editor-in-chief

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Mr Onuorah was abducted around 6 p.m. on Wednesday by the police from his Lugbe, Abuja home.

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“They didn’t allow me to go inside to change or even call my lawyer, they just insisted that I follow them without even disclosing where they are taking me,” he said.“I was taken away by the police and was locked up in a cell in Lugbe until the DPO came and asked them to put me at the reception. I was then moved to Abakaliki and then to Ebonyi.

“I was not physically tortured but I was mentally tortured. The boxer I have been wearing for the past three days is still with me as I am talking to you now,” he said. “It is just coming to my knowledge for the first time. Please send me the name of the person, let me confirm,” he told this newspaper.

 

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