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Pastor goes blind after torture by operatives of the DSS

A man of God who was tortured by operatives of the DSS has gone blind and needs the assistance of Nigerians to undergo a surgery abroad.

Pastor Ejomozor Williams is now blind after he was tortured by the DSS

Total Media reports that Pastor Willams, 46, the General Overseer of the Gracious and Mercy Prophetic International Church located in Egbeda, a suburb of the state, was arrested after the DSS officials invaded his house in the Ayobo area after his houseboy, identified as Chukwujekwu, had defrauded some residents using fake dollars.

It was gathered that when the DSS men could not locate Chukwujekwu who had fled the area, Pastor Willams was bundled into the operational vehicle of the operatives and taken to an unknown location where he was subjected to different forms of torture.

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A few weeks after his release, the Rivers State-born man of God was said to have lost the use of his eyes despite visiting no fewer than eight hospitals.

Narrating his ordeal, the pastor who said he formerly owned a hotel and a house in Abuja before they were demolished by the Federal Government, said he relocated to Lagos to start a new life.

“I started working as a freight worker at the Apapa port where I met the houseboy.  Someone actually introduced Chukwujekwu to me and I decided to help the boy.

After some time, he told me that he wanted to travel and that I should borrow him some money. I told him I didn’t have any money, so he went to meet a man called , an old friend of mine. Okoye gave him some fake dollars.

Chukwujekwu showed the dollars to a barber in the area, saying his relative abroad sent him the money and could also help the barber secure a visa to travel overseas.

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I got to know that the barber gave Chukwujekwu the sum of N30,000 for the visa and handed over his passport to him but the suspect his passport.

Chukwujekwu later fled my house after defrauding several other residents on the street.

On May 9, 2014, I was at home when about six persons scaled the fence into my compound. They wore black shirts and were armed.

They came into the house with Okoye and three other gunmen. They began to search the house and beat up people in the compound.

During the search, they found the fake dollars Chukwujekwu used to defraud people in the area. They said I should sign a statement, but I refused and they beat me up.”

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Pastor Williams said the DSS operatives bundled him into their vehicle and took him to an unknown place and when he asked them what wrong he had done, one of the gunmen hit him on the head with the butt of a gun, threatening to kill him.

He added that a part of his skull was compressed after the assault, adding that he was later driven to the DSS office on CMD Road, Magodo, Ketu-Ikosi.

“It was when we arrived at their head office that I realized they were DSS officials. They chained my hands and feet.

The next day, they informed me that Okoye told them that we both used fake dollars to defraud people. I denied the claim. I was held incommunicado for three weeks and was constantly tortured.

The DSS later said before they would release me, I must pay N15 million which I didn’t have. I told them that all I had was N20,000.

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After another round of torture, I fainted and was rushed to a clinic where they told them that my blood pressure was low.”

The man of God added that he was immediately transferred to the State Criminal investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) of the Lagos State Police Command and after spending two weeks at the SCIID, he was arraigned before a Yaba Magistrate’s Court.

He was then remanded in the Ikoyi Prison pending when he would fulfill his bail conditions and while in prison, he developed a severe migraine and was rushed to a hospital.

“This led to a partial stroke. I was at home some weeks later when everywhere suddenly went blank. I couldn’t see anything again and that was how I went blind.

Now, I cannot do anything for myself and my family. I am frustrated. I also have diabetes and high blood pressure,” he added.

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His distraught wife, Chinyere, said they had visited more than eight hospitals together without any result, adding that her husband was later asked to go for a CT scan

She said the scan revealed that he could not see because his brain had been affected after he was hit with the butt of a gun.

Chinyere added that the case against her husband at the magistrate court was struck out because, after the first arraignment, neither the DSS nor the police showed up in court while calling for the punishment of the DSS officials and appealed that her husband be flown abroad for a brain surgery that would correct the problem.

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