Anambra Court Orders SARs to Pay N5m to Onitsha Business Man

Alphonsus Nweze
An Anambra High Court sitting in Ogidi,I Idemili Local Government of the State ordered some Police officers attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)  to pay the sum of N5 million as compensation to an Onitsha business man, Ugochukwu Oraefo for extortion, illegal arrest, unlawful detention and torture.

Another Police Officer who was not attached to SARs was among the officers that will pay N5m to Oraefo.

Mr Oraefo who is an Onitsha based businessman was sometime in 2019 whisked away from his factory by men of Special Anti-robbery Squad to their office at Awkuzu, where he was unlawfully  detained, subjected to excruciating torture and criminally extorted the sum of Six Million Naira (N6,000,000.00) as ransom from him.

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