{"id":172864,"date":"2025-08-07T11:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-reportedly-break-sowores-right-hand-in-detention"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:03:43","slug":"police-reportedly-break-sowores-right-hand-in-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-reportedly-break-sowores-right-hand-in-detention","title":{"rendered":"Police reportedly break Sowore\u2019s right hand in detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A Nigeria Police team has reportedly broken the hand of Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress during the 2023 general election.<\/p>\n<p>The incident reportedly happened on Thursday morning at the Force Headquarters in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>A trending post shared on Sowore\u2019s official Instagram page, revealed that the team headed by a CSP from Inspector General of Police, IGP Monitoring Unit, forcibly entered his detention cell and later<\/p>\n<p>took him away to an undisclosed location.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt about 6AM, a police team, headed by a CSP from the IGP Monitoring Unit, forcibly entered Omoyele Sowore\u2019s detention cell at the FID in Abuja, broke his right hand, and transported him to an undisclosed location.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sowore was detained on Wednesday after he honored an invite from the IGP Monitoring Unit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A Nigeria Police team has reportedly broken the hand of Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress during the 2023 general election. The incident reportedly happened on Thursday morning at the Force Headquarters in Abuja. 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