Nigerian stars are responding to the emotional account given by a man named Martins, who was wrongfully imprisoned. In a gathering held at the Living Faith Church, popularly known as Winners, Martins shared his harrowing experience of being wrongly imprisoned for a crime he had no involvement in.

During his narration, Martins detailed how, back in 2009, he was returning from a football match when he was forcibly apprehended by police officers. He went on to explain that he was falsely implicated in a crime that he had no connection to.

The accusations against him revolved around robbery and murder, leading to his confinement in a jail cell for an agonizing period of ten years. It wasn't until 2021 that he found relief, as divine intervention finally led to his release from captivity.

Martins added that some people came from the Justice, Development, and Peace Commission (JDPC) and helped him reopen his case, which led to his release.

“My name is Martins, I want to thank God and I want Youths and those who love football to be attentive. I only went to watch the Barca match.

I only went to watch football, that’s all I know, and as I was coming back the police backed beside me and said I should enter. I tried proving stubborn and then put tear gas on me, that’s all that I know.

When we got to the station, they just put me straight into the cell. No statement, nothing, like a joy. So the third day, this woman I will never forget ASP Diko, just came and said bring him out, his case is settled already, let’s take him.

Before I knew it, they took me straight to court, and they were calling another person’s name, which I wasn’t the one. They came to force me up and they said I collab with some people to kill and rob, which I didn’t know anything about. I thought it was a joke. 2019 they stopped taking me to court, and in 2020, some people came to preach and I keyed into a testimony.

So 2021, some people from the Justice Development and Peace Commission came. So a woman came to call me from the cell and they listened to my story. They had to trace my name back to UI, found my name, and found everything. So it was my name they took to the court to find out that I wasn’t the right person.

After 10 years I was released, though I lost my mother, lost my life, but I didn’t lose my wife”.

Taking to comment section, Shaffy Bello, Helen Paul, Warri Pikin, and Woli Arole shed tears on his behalf.

Woli Arole wrote, “Thank God for freedom

Shaffy Bello wrote, “Jesus!

Helen Paul wrote, “God have mercy

See some reactions from netizens below,

One David Chisom wrote, “May we not suffer for what we don’t know of

One Mr Tosh wrote, “Sadly this happened to my neighbor, the van stopped and asked him to enter, he refused and he was pushed in. What saved him was his neighbor in school hostel saw what happened and started alerting his siblings. Like play they took him to state CID and was bailed with 70k. Just like that. God for his a country like Nigeria.

One Chinny Elsie wrote, “Nigerian police need to pay this man

One Sar Tomi wrote, “Chai!!! May Nigerian not happen to us. You can just imagine. You can sue the Nigerian police and that ASP Diko they acting made you serve another person’s term

One Peaceful Baddie wrote, “Nigeria police can do better smh

One Jewel Baby wrote, “After our leaders fear the police. Fear them fear them

Bad

Too sad