Nigerian Army Brutality & Human Rights Abuse
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( 70-Year-Old Man Blinded By Soldier )

For daring to exchange words with an army officer on January 15, 2009, a 70-year-old man, Joseph Okechukwu Agu, was given the beaten of his life.
He did not believe, back then, as the blows rained down on his hapless head that he would live to testify before a public tribunal on the incident that transpired between him and the soldier.
Agu must have told his family as he was leaving for work, that the day would be better, and that they should hope for the best when he returns. He was however unaware that a dare- devil in military khaki was already waiting somewhere with a dose of agony.
The aged man met his waterloo, when an enraged army Sergeant, Francis Ogah, who is serving at the 82 Division, Enugu Barracks dragged him off his lorry and gave him the beating of his life, with the metallic buckle of his belt that later led to his total blindness.
Narrating his ordeal on that fateful day, Agu who is now assisted by his wife to move about, said: "On January 15, 2009, at about 8.30a.m, I was attacked by Sergeant Francis Ogar with his belt. The soldier hit my face with the metallic buckle of his belt, and that led to the blindness of both my eyes.
The incident took place along Abakpa-Ogui Road, Enugu. I was driving a tipper lorry and Ogah was driving a Mitsubishi bus. He was in his army uniform on that day, all
off a sudden, he double-crossed me, blocked my tipper, pulled me out of the lorry and......"
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