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BUSINESSMAN CALLS FOR JUSTICE OVER BRUTALITY ON HIM BY MEN OF THE NIGERIAN AIRFORCE AT OSUBI AIRSTRIP
A Warri based businessman, Mr. Larry Otu, has called for investigation and justice over the brutality meted to him by men of the Nigerian Airforce at the Osubi Airstrip, Warri in where security was beefed up over Dame Patience Jonathan’s visit to Delta state.
Men of the Nigerian Airforce, today at the Osubi Airport allegedly molested the C.E.O. of Lym Consults Nigeria Limited, Mr. Larry Otu when he was going to the Airport to pick up his technical partners from Canada.
The sum of #200,000 was allegedly stolen from his pocket in the process of the assault on him. He called for justice over the bitter treatment he received from the Nigerian Airforce men.
Narrating his ordeal to National Reformer Newspaper, Otu, who is the Chief Executive Officer of LYM Consults Nigeria Limited, said he was at the Airstrip to receive his technical partners from Canada when the men from the Warri Airforce Unit stationed at the facility attacked him.
He said, “It happened at about 9am when our foreign partners arrived the airport and I was there at the dot of time to clear them at the immigration desk. I drove to the gates to face interrogation from the men of Nigerian Airforce.
“One asked if I (Otu) knew the President’s wife was coming today. I said yes, but I have come to pick my foreign partners. He asked what I do for a living, I said I own the company being visited by our technical partners and he said as small as you are?
According to Otu. “He said okay, find me something. I said I can’t give you anything. So he ordered me to reverse my car and leave. He said I can’t drive in. So, I reversed my car, drove back to the main road and was trekking down to go in when a team of the force men, numbering about eight pounded on me.”
Otu said his attackers dragged from there to a point behind their caravan office at the airport and continued the beating, kicking, punching and hitting me with their guns, adding it took intervention of his manager who approached one of the officers before the assault was halted.
“It turned out my manager knew one of the Airforce Officers at the Airport. He ran in to tell him that it was his company’s chairman his men were manhandling. That was when the officer came and ordered them to stop and let me go, but before I was left with a battered, bloodied face and my N200, 000 forced from my pocket by one of them”, Otu added.
The victim called on “relevant authorities to ensure justice by bringing these men to book. I know the man who started it all and I know the one who took N200, 000 from my pocket. We can’t continue to live in this kind of country. Justice must be done”.
Efforts to get reaction from Air Commodore A D Dudusola, who heads the 61 NAF Detachment, Warri proved abortive as he could not be contacted on phone.
