Describing the event as it happened, Adewale said, “They came in a convoy of vehicles and gun trucks, hooded, and armed to the teeth. Comrade Joe Ajaero was blindfolded, beaten to a pulp, brutalized, humiliated, and violated by the police personnel and taken to unknown location where he was subjected to more battering and torture as well as threatening with death before help came in his way when the National Security Adviser, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, ordered his immediate release.
“However, due to the severity of his injuries, the police had taken him to the police headquarters where we made contact with him at 3:30pm. At the time of our first contact with Comrade Joe Ajaero, his right eye was puffed, black, and soft, one of his ears had tiny trace of dry blood. His speech was blurred and incoherent, he had welts all over him, he did not recognize the people around him, and he could not walk without being aided or supported. Invariably, he had to be taken to Federal Medical Centre Owerri in Imo State for further investigation.
