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•Says allegation spurious, malicious and baseless

The Police in Enugu has described as ‘unfounded, baseless and spurious’, the claim by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) that it demanded the sum of N200,000 to grant bail to one of her members currently held in custody.

The Police Command also debunked the claim that it extorted the sum of N55,000 to release the grandfather of the said detained IPOB member who sustained gun shot wounds, saying it never arrested any family member of the suspect.

While dismissing the claims in a statement released yesterday by the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, the Police said it was a “baseless and malicious claim making the rounds on social media that one Ofornedum Okafor, an IPOB member, was arrested at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu alongside his grandfather by the Police and detained on the order of the Commissioner of Police, ‘who wants him to die in Police custody where he is chained, rather than being treated from the bullets wounds his men illegally inflicted on him.’

“Furthermore, that the Police, according to the statement credited to one Emma Powerful, the spokesman of the proscribed group, is demanding for over N200,000 bribe for his bail after extorting the sum of N55,000 before releasing his grandfather; and that the Commissioner will ‘pay a heavy price’ should anything happen to the suspect.”

Warning against the deliberate and malicious spread of false information, the Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmad Abdurrahman, urged the general public, particularly residents of the state, “to completely disregard such unfounded, baseless and spurious claims, which contain no iota of fact and/or truth.”

The statement further noted that, “the Commissioner finds it unbelievable why anyone will find time to conjure-up such unthinkable falsehood aimed at discrediting the Command and by extension the Force, in a matter where the Command took and has been funding the treatment of the said suspect in the mentioned hospital so he can be fit enough to face pending charges against him and four (4) others in the court of law.

“To this end, he warns that such acts of calumny against the Police and aimed at misinforming, misleading and causing tension in the hitherto very peaceful State and threat to the Police, will not be tolerated from individuals or groups. He notes that any person(s) found wanting will be made to face the full weight of the law.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the CP has made it categorically clear that the suspect was taken to the said hospital for treatment at the expense of the Police; and is still being treated so he can be fit enough to face criminal prosecution alongside four (4) others, who have already been charged to court and remanded in Correctional Service custody for the offences of conspiracy, treasonable felony and murder.

“Also, that the Police did not at any point in time demanded for any sum of money for the bail of the suspect neither was his grandfather or any member of his family arrested, detained and released after extorting the sum of N55,000 at Central Police Station Enugu, as spuriously alleged.”

1 COMMENT

  1. If some without gun will have four count charge against him including treason and murder,, why is it that the police and other security operatives has not brought any member of Boko Haram or Fulani herd’s men to book. Instead they are being empowered by the federal government by giving them billions of Naira all in the name of amnesty.

    Truth be told is that how Nigerians will be governed without faithful Royal and honesty?

    I’m of the opinion that security services should tackle the real problem that is facing this country by using the weight of the law against the Boko Haram and Fulani herd’s men and bring them to book.

    Let us remove sentiment and face the real truth.
    Accountability faithfulness and royalty is what Nigerian pledge stand’s for and those in power know this more than any other person in this country. I rest my case

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