The young Nigerian boy seen standing in front of Peter Obi’s convoy during the 2023 general elections Quadri Yusuf Alabi, has been narrating his ordeal while being locked up on trump up charges at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre in Lagos.
Speaking on Channels TV Monday Alabi narrated that he was made to labour all day packing excrements of other inmates because he couldn’t afford to pay prison warders “protection fee.”
“My job in prison from morning to night was to pack ‘shit.’
“I was treated like someone without a family. I didn’t have money to give the wardens, so they left me in that condition. That was my daily punishment.”
He stated that his ordeal began when he and his parents refused to share the money Mr. Obi campaign gave to him.
“When the campaign happened in 2023, some people were telling my mum that the money Peter Obi gave me should be shared with them,” he revealed. “They threatened to kidnap me if we didn’t share it.”
“My mum told them it can’t be possible, that if her son, who stood in front of the car, had been shot, would they be asking for a share if I had died?”
Quadri said he was ultimately handed over to the police by the same people who threatened him, under allegations of conspiracy and armed robbery.
“I had just come back from work, I was a motor boy delivering fish to Port Harcourt. As I got to our street, I didn’t know a fight had broken out earlier. ‘Area boys’ grabbed me and told police, ‘See the boy.’ That’s how I was arrested.”
He recounted spending a week in a cell at the Amukoko Police Station before being transferred to prison, where his suffering intensified.
“They locked me with four elderly men I didn’t know. The ‘area boys’ claimed I destroyed property and stole phones. I told them I was just coming from work, but they didn’t listen,” he said.
Meanwhile, human rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong, has disclosed that over ₦10 million has been raised in just four days for Alabi by concerned Nigerians.
“We’ve raised over N10 million in just four days for Quadri. The goal is to relocate him from Amukoko and secure a source of income for his mother, who is a petty trader. “This shows the strength of the Nigerian spirit,” Effiong said.