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Human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, who is incarcerated in Akwa Ibom State, has been moved from Ikot Ekpene prison to Uyo prison.
A lawyer, Augustine Asuquo, who is the head of Inibehe Effiong Chambers in Uyo, said Mr Effiong was hurriedly taken on Wednesday morning in a prison van from Ikot Ekpene prison to Uyo prison.
He told PREMIUM TIMES that Mr Effiong was handcuffed and assaulted by prison officials who “bundled him and threw him into a van as if he were a common criminal”.
“He narrated this morning (Wednesday) to me how he was handcuffed, harassed, and assaulted while they were taking him from Ikot Ekpene prison to Uyo prison,” Mr Asuquo said Wednesday afternoon.
“This is something nobody would want to hear. It is a terrible experience. They didn’t even give him time to take his bath.
“The officers went there in their numbers, entered his cell. They were harassing him, even when he pleaded they should let him take his bath. And he is on medication, he needed to eat so he could take his drugs. The last time I visited him, he wasn’t feeling too well. He is taking anti-malaria tabs.”
The lawyer was reportedly driven in a van conveying Nollywood actor, Moses Armstrong, who is standing trial for rape and supplying abortion drugs.
“He was handcuffed and bundled inside the van as if he were a common criminal,” Mr Asuquo said…
