Balaraba Isah, a medical doctor, has shared her experience of being detained at a police station in Gwarimpa.
Speaking in an interview with Brekete Family, a human rights program, Balaraba said that while in custody, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) instructed some male detainees that once she was placed in their cell, they could do whatever they wanted with her. She mentioned that the DPO was dressed in white that day.
Balaraba said that despite the DPO’s words, the men refused to harm her, saying she was like a sister to them. She described the cell as small and overcrowded, with more than 30 men inside. She said when she was released, she gave the detainees four thousand naira, which she took from her own transport money.
In Balaraba’s words: “The next thing DPO himself was telling those boys that if I enter there anything they want to do with me they should do with me. He was putting on white that day. I am sure some of the boys are still in that cell. But the boys said ‘this is our sister, we cannot hurt her’. When I was leaving the cell I gave the boys four thousand naira that I removed from my transport. There were more than 30 people in the small cell.
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