KEMI QUADRI BELLO

Has taken to Twitter to recount how her alleged experience with SARS officers in 2010 affected her mental health.

“Finally, l have summoned courage to share my SARS story: One day back in 2010, SARS picked me up in front of Luth while I was waiting for a cab. I just graduated from Uni and it was a few days to induction(graduation). I came to LUTH to sort out my induction gown. We lived off Ogunlana drive back then. My dad called me that he wanted to come pick me up because he was feeling a certain kind of way about my safety and I was like“Daddy, LUTH to Ogunlana is just a stone throw, I’m a big girl now, let me take a cab. see you soon, love you!”As soon as l hung up, my phone battery died.

While waiting for the cab in front of LUTH, these SARS guys came with their bus. They picked me up along with some other guys and threw me into their bus. They immediately started saying“Na yahoo yahoo boy girlfriend see her face, she’s one of them”.

I was in shock. Gun pointed at me. I started crying,“Sir I’m not a yahoo boy’s girlfriend, I’m a Doctor. I just graduated. I came for my gown”I was screaming and crying. They asked for my phone, the battery was dead and they asked me why I put it off? They said I was hiding something. Unfortunately, I had no ID on me but I had the receipt for the gown which I showed them but it absolutely made no difference.

Two of them started using the bottom of their guns to hit me, I was screaming and crying. Some of the other guys in the bus were also being dealt with but I think it’s my screams and cries that irritated them so much that they started beating me. When we got to Ojuelegba, they threw me out of the fast-moving bus. I had nothing on me, I walked from Ojuelegba to Ogunlana, crying and wailing.

I was just glad they dropped me, I was happy they didn’t shoot me or take me somewhere to harm me.