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Quadri Alabi, 17 years old who received national attention during the 2023 general election because he dared to stand in front of the presidential candidate of the Labor Party Peter Obi, had talked about a very traumatic experience after the moment in the spotlight.
Speaking to Brief Morning, the television program channel, on Monday, Alabi tells how life takes a dark turn after a viral photo he go public.
“Because the campaign image became viral, it seems like some people have watched me,” he said, describing a series of terrible events that began with threats to their families and peaked in unfair arrests and detention.
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Alabi claims that his mother received a threat to the financial assistance allegedly given to him. “Someone tells him that if we don’t share money, he will never see me again. They even threaten to kidnap me,” he said.
The teenager, who worked as a motorbike, explained that on the day he was arrested, he had just returned from work, did not realize that the fight had erupted in his environment. He said that the area of the area arrested him and handed it to the police, wrongly involved him in riots.
“I had just been at the entrance of my house when the police came and picked me up,” he recalled. “At the station, I was the youngest person there. I was locked up with a much older man. I didn’t do anything.”
The situation worsened when he was transferred to the Correctional Center Kirikiri. Alabi described being forced to carry out inhuman tasks as a punishment for his inability to pay bribes to prison authorities.
“Every day, I have to clean dirt from morning to 6 pm,” he said. “They say I have to pay Marshall, but I can’t afford it.”
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