The widow of the late Samuel Brownson, Patience, on Monday, requested N50m compensation for her husband’s death in the hands of the men of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad in 2013.
She told the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry that her husband was killed close by three of his laborers on his farm in Ute town after a squabble with policemen, who buried the four of them after committing the crime.
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She stated, “The police stacked the carcasses of my husband and his three laborers into their van while an official drove my husband’s vehicle to the police headquarters.
“I followed them to the Edo State Police Command base camp in GRA, Benin City. At the point when I arrived, I recognized myself as the spouse of Mr. Samuel Brownson. I was thumped, blamed for being a spouse of the head of an equipped theft posse and I was confined for four days without food and water. I was delivered five days after the fact after the intercession of my legal advisor.
“To cover what they did, the police quickly buried my husband and the laborers,” she said.
She said that the family mounted tension on the police to unearth the body of her husband for dissection and that the outcome from the examination uncovered that he passed on from slug wounds.
Moreover, Mrs. Rosemary Amadin approached the board for N25m as compensation for the passing of her husband, Mr. Odewingie Amadin.
She told the board that her husband, a transporter, was pursued to his demise by SARS men in 2019.
Rosemary said to try not to be shot by the police, her husband bounced into the Ologbo River and when he mentioned help, the police allegedly took steps to slaughter any individual who elected to help him and watched him suffocate.
Chairman of the panel, Justice Ada Ehigiamusoe (retd.), deferred all together for the police to likewise get the opportunity to express their own side of the story.
