Delta Commissioner of Police Petitioned over Assault, Intimidation and Stealing by Police Personnel from A Division Asaba .
By Ahabamnews
The Delta State Commissioner of police mr. Olufemi Surajudeen Abaniwonda, has been notified of a case of brutality, Excessive force, Intimidation , Assault and Stealing leveled against some personnel of the state police command.
In the said notification, signed by J. C. Dikedi and Co. , legal Consultant, who are Solicitors to the claimants, complained over the following
That the family of his client Mr. Onyeka Onochie of Konwea Street, Uda Layout by Holy Ghost Movement Church Asaba, Delta State of Nigeria, suffered severe assault.
The notification dated 30th April, 2024 has it that on 30th day of April 2024, at about 12 noon 18 minutes, two officers attached to A Division of Nigeria police Force Asaba, Delta State of Nigeria, dressed in mufti forcibly entered the premises known as Konwea Street, Uda Layout by Holy Ghost Movement, without any police identification card and or search warrant.
They claimed in the petition to the state commissioner of police, that the bizarr act they orchestrated led to the assault of one Ada Onochie, a daughter of the house and pushed down an aged woman of about 90 years old.
The petition also has it that ,the two men went into the room, ransacked the room and made away with phones of which,one belonged to mrs. Blessing Michael and Comrade Jude Ojiugo-Onochie, and cash with #250,000.00 belonging to Mr. Onyeka Onochie, the son of the aged woman, an uncle to Ada Onochie, who was assaulted at the gate they forcibly gain entrance, and that the said money bolted away by those two unidentified police personnel from A Division was kept in the custody of Mr. Pat Onochie.
Furthermore, the solicitor called on the state commissioner of police to call those two men from A Division Asaba, to answer for the stolen phones, phone poaches, and music player (MRS) and the cash stowed away by the policemen.
The Lawyer acting on behalf of his client, expressed fear that the citizens live in dangerous days in current Nigeria, and wonder why the police should make such forcible entry without due process in a civil society as ours.
They called on the state commissioner of police to launch investigation into the said matter, as the occupants of the house which was forcibly entered into live in fear, as their phones are no longer with them, and also if actually those two persons are police personnel or not.
