Bisina, an Executive Director at Lite Africa, a non-governmental organisation, in a petition addressed to the Brigade Commander, 4th Brigade, Benin City, Edo State, said that he was assaulted at the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, office in Koko by soldiers on the orders of their Acting Commander.
He explained that at INEC office, he encountered the Chairman of Warri North LGA, Mr. Aduge Okorodudu, who asked him his experience in his ward and he narrated how soldiers not only delayed them for hours from proceeding to their polling unit on February 23, but threatened fury on them when he challenged their action after two hours.
He said it was while he was going to meet the chair that the Acting Commander, 19th Battalion, Koko, who accused him of lying, ordered soldiers to beat him up and four soldiers under his instruction “dehumanised me.”“One of them slapped me on the face, the other kicked me on the leg, another hit me on the head and back and the last one dragged me by my belt into the military van.
He said that the officer asked him to respond to the false accusation he made against the army, and he, in turn, demanded why they treated him like a common criminal.