When SARS Falsely Arrested Me: My Two Weeks in Ikeja PWD Cell

In 2005, after earning my diploma, I visited my grandparents in Ajegunle. One afternoon I bought a small bottle of beer and started to relax. Suddenly, police officers swooped in and arrested almost eight of us. Five managed to bail out immediately. I insisted I was a student and spoke English as an aspiring journalist, but Sergeant Segun was unmoved. He called SARS and claimed we were armed robbers. At midnight, they dumped over 200 of us into the PWD cell in Ikeja. We spent nights crammed together and faced brutal torture at dawn. I was beaten, shown bloodstains, and forced to confess to crimes I never committed. I spent two terrifying weeks behind those bars, witnessing killings almost every day. That ordeal is something I will never forget.

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