Ebonyi Man Arrested For “Looking Like” Murder Suspect Rots In Aba Prison For 13 Years Without Trial
A 55-year-old Ebonyi State indigene, Sunday Anyim, has spent 13 years in detention at the Aba Correctional Centre in Abia State without trial after being arrested in 2012 for allegedly resembling a murder suspect.
According to his lawyer, Barrister Onyekachi Ezedike Hillary, Anyim was arrested at Ehere Market in Aba while selling second-hand clothes (okirika) after travelling from Ebonyi State for business. Police officers reportedly detained him solely on the claim that he looked like a suspect accused of killing a woman on her farmland in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State.
Since then, Anyim—married with children—has remained in custody awaiting trial, while his family believed he had died after failing to return home. His case was further stalled after court records were destroyed during the #EndSARS protests in 2020. The lawyer revealed that Anyim recently collapsed in prison and is now critically ill, unable to speak or walk, as efforts intensify to reconnect him with his family and secure his release, raising renewed concerns over prolonged detention, human rights abuse, and Nigeria’s criminal justice system.
A 55-year-old Ebonyi State indigene, Sunday Anyim, has spent 13 years in detention at the Aba Correctional Centre in Abia State without trial after being arrested in 2012 for allegedly resembling a murder suspect.
According to his lawyer, Barrister Onyekachi Ezedike Hillary, Anyim was arrested at Ehere Market in Aba while selling second-hand clothes (okirika) after travelling from Ebonyi State for business. Police officers reportedly detained him solely on the claim that he looked like a suspect accused of killing a woman on her farmland in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State.
Since then, Anyim—married with children—has remained in custody awaiting trial, while his family believed he had died after failing to return home. His case was further stalled after court records were destroyed during the #EndSARS protests in 2020. The lawyer revealed that Anyim recently collapsed in prison and is now critically ill, unable to speak or walk, as efforts intensify to reconnect him with his family and secure his release, raising renewed concerns over prolonged detention, human rights abuse, and Nigeria’s criminal justice system.
Ebonyi Man Arrested For “Looking Like” Murder Suspect Rots In Aba Prison For 13 Years Without Trial
A 55-year-old Ebonyi State indigene, Sunday Anyim, has spent 13 years in detention at the Aba Correctional Centre in Abia State without trial after being arrested in 2012 for allegedly resembling a murder suspect.
According to his lawyer, Barrister Onyekachi Ezedike Hillary, Anyim was arrested at Ehere Market in Aba while selling second-hand clothes (okirika) after travelling from Ebonyi State for business. Police officers reportedly detained him solely on the claim that he looked like a suspect accused of killing a woman on her farmland in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State.
Since then, Anyim—married with children—has remained in custody awaiting trial, while his family believed he had died after failing to return home. His case was further stalled after court records were destroyed during the #EndSARS protests in 2020. The lawyer revealed that Anyim recently collapsed in prison and is now critically ill, unable to speak or walk, as efforts intensify to reconnect him with his family and secure his release, raising renewed concerns over prolonged detention, human rights abuse, and Nigeria’s criminal justice system.
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