Lawyer Arrested In Abuja For Criticising Police Over Handling Of Rape Case

A human rights lawyer, Martin Obono, has been apprehended by the police in the federal capital territory (FCT), Abuja.

Obono was arrested on Friday for allegedly criticising the police over a rape case he’s handling.

He’s is being detained at a police station in Zone 3, in the Wuse district of the capital city.

The arrest was sequel to a tweeted about the police treatment of a rape victim who happened to be his client

A gender advocate, Ndi Kato, who confirmed the incident, said she is at the police station and that efforts are being made to get him out of custody.

“We are here at the police station, We are with SP operations,” she said.

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On Tuesday, the lawyer tweeted about the case.

“Five days ago, my clients reported a rape case. The suspect used police to turned the case on its head and got the ladies detained the girls in same cell with men. I was livid. It didn’t end there, they asked them to bring a level 14 civil servant, C of O to surety their bail,” he had tweeted.

“I managed to get them out without those stringent bail conditions. You now see why women don’t come out?”

There has been outrage and mass hysteria against rape on social media following the spate of sexual violence recorded recently across the country.

Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 100-level microbiology student of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), was reportedly killed after she was raped inside a parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) near Ikpoba Hill in Benin, Edo state, in May.