A Delta State Home of Meeting candidate, Harrison Gwamnishu, has claimed that three officers of the Rivers State Police Command arrested over the latest kidnapping of a person haven’t but been prosecuted.
The operatives, ASP Doubara Edonyabo, ASP Expertise Mungo and Inspector Odey Michael, had kidnapped the person in Aba, Abia State and took him to Bayelsa State and later Ughelli in Delta State the place they allegedly stole the equal of three,000 had taken USDT of N4,200,000.00 from him. in response to a police assertion.
Following their arrest, the command introduced that an investigation into the incident had begun whereas the cash collected had been returned to the victims on January 18.
Nevertheless, Gwamnishu, who raised the primary alarm, said in an X-post on Friday that the erring officers have been nonetheless “at massive” and wouldn’t be dismissed as a result of they’re senior officers.
“Since January 18, by my efforts and people of my group, we’ve arrested these officers concerned within the kidnapping and extortion of a $3,000USD ransom from their sufferer.
“Thus far, these officers stroll freely on orders and endanger our lives and the lives of the sufferer. I used to be boldly instructed that they may not be fired as a result of they’re senior cops. They’re ASP Doubara Edonyabo, ASP Expertise Mungo and Inspector Odey Michael,” he wrote on X.
The spokesperson for the Rivers State Police Command, Grace Iringe-Koko, couldn’t be reached for her rapid remark.
Nevertheless, in an announcement on January 22, Iringe-Koko introduced that the officers whose actions violated the legislation and police moral requirements confronted disciplinary motion.
“The 2 officers have been requested official questions and the inspector will endure an orderly course of within the room. “To display our dedication to transparency and accountability, the Rivers State Police Command has determined to publicly parade the officers earlier than the press to underline the seriousness with which we’re viewing this matter,” she said.
This isn’t the primary time such misconduct has been reported involving cops from Rivers State.
In December, 4 officers have been concerned within the alleged kidnapping of a resort employee in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
The sufferer, recognized as Darlington, was reportedly arrested on his option to work when the cops accosted him close to Choba in Obio/Akpor Native Authorities Space of the state.
They have been later arrested after the matter was reported to the divisional police.
