Aishat, who claimed that the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, ordered her husband’s arrest because he left the All Progressives Congress (APC), said she has not been given access to see or talk to her husband since he was arrested 26 days ago.
Aishat Oyiza, the wife of one of the persons arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) at Trademore Estate at Lugbe Abuja in October, Ibrahim Fari Shafiu, is crying out to the government to release her husband.
Aishat, who claimed that the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, ordered her husband’s arrest because he left the All Progressives Congress (APC), said she has not been given access to see or talk to her husband since he was arrested 26 days ago.
The mother of two said since her husband’s arrest and detention, the DSS has not taken him to court or given him access to a lawyer.
Aishat said her National Youth Service Corps programme has been put on hold due to the incident.
She lamented that her brother, Yusuf Abdulrahman, a business administration student of Nasarawa Polytechnic, who was also taken away by the security operatives, has been missing out on his studies.
She said, "I have not been able to see or talk to my husband and my brother since they were arrested 26 days ago. They have refused to take them to court or give them access to a lawyer.
"On the 3rd of November 2022, Abu Muazu Esq of F. S. Jimba & Co went to inquire about them and he was told by the DSS officials that they are going to call for family or lawyer to come and bail them from Friday, November 4, 2022 to Monday, November 7, 2022.
"So on Monday, I went with the lawyer to the DSS office for follow-up since we did not get any call from my brother and his in-law.
"They denied us entry into the DSS premises from the gate at the mention of his name. We heard that they have transferred them from the DSS state facility in Asokoro to their headquarters in Maitama. We went there but they didn't allow us to enter.
"My National Youth Service Corps programme is on hold since I can't access my phone where I have my call-up code.
"The code was sent to my email and I can only access my mail through my phone because I can't remember my password. And our phones were taken away by the DSS.”
"My brother, Yusuf Abdulrahman, who was also taken away by the security men is a business administration student of Nasarawa Polytechnic National Diploma. Yusuf has not been able to go back to school for his academic activities,” she added.
Ibrahim Fari Shafiu, a loyalist of Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate for Kogi Central Senatorial District was arrested by the DSS at Trademore Estate in Abuja.
Aishat had narrated to SaharaReporters how the operatives assaulted her along with other people in the house when Safiu and her brother were arrested.
"I can only recognise the two white men among them because they all wore masks. We were six when they came in; they assaulted me with pregnancy, along with my mother-in-law, my brother, my two children and my neighbour's kid.
"My children were even begging them not to kill their mother or take her away.
"They scattered our house and went away with my younger brother, my mother-in-law’s purse and recharge cards. My money which is up to N350,000, laptop and all our phones (were taken)," she said.
The woman described her husband as a good man who doesn't look for trouble. He said the only people her husband has a problem with are the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello and his Chief of Staff.