The press officer of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) anti-bunkering unit, South-South inland waterways, Aisha Ahmed has disclosed that she was illegally detained for fifty-one days by the Rivers State Police Command.
She said she was held alongside her team in the Port Harcourt correctional facility following her refusal to compromise with the police to release the owners of some impounded trucks carrying illegally refined products.
Ahmed disclosed this to journalists shortly after she and the head of operation, Mr Tamnosaki Jack was discharged and acquitted by Chief Magistrate A.O Amadi Nna in PortHarcourt on Thursday.
The IPMAN officer while narrating her ordeal said they were arrested by the Camp Commandant of Rivers State Government House and officials of Port Harcourt City Local Government while conveying 120 drums of seized suspected illegally refined petroleum products.
She said the Camp Commandant and PHALGA Chairman, Allwell Ihunda, had arrested and treated her like a common criminal despite knowing her identity.
According to her, they were beaten, restricted from communicating with anyone and without investigations arraigned in a Chief Magistrate Court on trumped-up charges.
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