Saturday, 7 September 2013

Bizman ties apprentice for 10 days without food in Lagos


By Linda Amalu
When Thankgod Nwabisi, 23, left his village in Adani, Uzo-Uwani L.G.A of Enugu State to serve as an apprentice to an auto -parts dealer in  Ladipo, Lagos, popularly called Elopee, members of his family heaved a sigh of relief, believing that their only child was making a positive headway in life.
Little did they know that the secondary school holder will end up being traumatized
by his master.  He was thoroughly  tortured, tied with ropes and dumped inside a room in the master’s house  for about ten days without food or water.  According to him, he was accused of not reconciling their sale’s book properly resulting in the loss of N4,000.
The ugly incident which took place at Number 1, Bisi Yusuf  area,  Kainde in Ayobo, a suburb of Lagos State, aroused the anger of their neighbours who promptly alerted policemen on patrol from Ayobo division and they swiftly responded.  The eagle-eyed policemen reportedly broke into the premises after making frantic calls without response while the agonising cries of pain was coming from   one of the rooms in the house

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