Omoyele Sowore’s claim that Mallam Babagana Zulum, has a torture chamber for #EndBadGovernance protesters, has drawn the governor’s response.
The Saharareporters’ publisher and the African Action Congress presidential candidate in the 2023, had in a series of social media posts accused Zulum of operating a torture chamber known as “The Crack FC” in Maiduguri, where he allegedly kept protesters for over a year.
“The heartless Governor of Borno, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, maintains a torture chamber with his security outfit ‘The Crack FC’ in Maiduguri, that’s where he kept his #EndBadGovernance victims for more than a year! WICKED!” Sowore wrote.
He said in another post: “This is not only unlawful but shameful. While Zulum allocates billions of naira to Boko Haram ‘repentees,’ he criminalises and imprisons young citizens whose only ‘crime’ is demanding accountability and good governance.”
The claims were however denied by Zulum in an interview his Senior Technical Assistant on Print and Digital Communications, Abdulrahman Bundi, granted Punchng.
“To be sincere with you, these are just pure imaginations of Sowore. There is nothing like that existing. It is baseless misinformation to say the governor ordered people to be held for a year. What does the governor have to do with the #EndBadGovernance protest? It is not even a state government affair—the protest is against the federal government,” Bundi said.
Before he added: “Let us be clear: the Deradicalisation, Rehabilitation, and Reintegration programme DRR, is not just about Boko Haram terrorists. It is a multi-stakeholder approach to resolving the crisis in Borno. It is about bringing peace, rehabilitating those who were overrun, forcefully abducted, or engaged by Boko Haram. In fact, it focuses more on the victims of the crisis.”
