Hello beautiful people of Hive, it's great to have you on my blog 🤗🤗 🥳🥳
Welcome to another installment of our weekly engagements.
Join me today as I tell you a touching story about someone who was accused wrongly by the police and denied fair hearing in a court of law.
If you're a Nigerian, I am sure you might have had or heard such stories where innocent people were wrongly accused and imprisoned, also the high rate of injustice in our country because of some greedy and wicked who people who rose to power but I belive that they will soon be brought to the books.
A friend of my sister, buys and sells London used smartphones and accessories at a place in my city, Port Harcourt Nogeria popularly known as the Phone village — Garrison.
He was very well known, a trustworthy and honest young man but something tragic happened along the line.
A woman who worked in a Secret Security Body called the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) was robbed and all her belongings that were with her were taken by the bandits, including her smartphone. Being in such an agency, she traced her phone to where it was probably taken to or sold so she could get it back and she found the phone in the custody of another person who bought the phone from a phone vendor in Garrison.
She told the person to take her to the exact place he got it from and the person who sold it to him who happens to be my sister's friend. Right on the spot, without asking further questions or how the phone came to be in his custody or who he bought the phone from she with the help of other policemen who came with her arrested him and took him to the police station.
The innocent young man had no connections in the authorities and with nowhere to turn to, he was kept in the police station for several days which was another violation of his rights because by law, an accused is not supposed to spend more than 48 hours in a police station without being tried in a law court and proven guilty.
This was a really though time for him and his Mum. He was just two months into the business because he suspended his University admission to raise some money to pay for his school fees and take care of other things in school.
After some more weeks of being there, my sister told my Dad his story of which my Dad promised to help.
Though it took several months close to a year, h was even sent to jail because the SARS woman charged him with felony, he came out clean and all charges were dropped.
He could have been released earlier but the Judge who tried his case the first time was very corrupt and wanted a bribe from him but he refused and made an appeal.
It was a very horrific experience for him but he was able to come out of it and continue his studies.
Always stand for what is right, no matter how bad and corrupt every other person around you might be. We are the change that we seek; it starts with us.
Till next time...
This is my response to the Hive Learners Weekly Engagement Prompt.
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