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Question officers for brutalising 90-year- outdated girl

The Particular Squad of the Delta State Police Command deployed to Ughelli has arrested three suspected armed robbers with one Beretta pistol and one regionally made cut-to-size gun in Sapele city.

The Guardian learnt that the particular squad arrested the suspects on June 5, at about 5:45 a.m., whereas appearing on credible intelligence. Confirming the arrest, spokesperson for the command, SP Vivid Edafe, gave the names of the suspects as: Blessing Atima, 23, ‘m’, of Jesse group in Ethiope West Native Council; the gang chief, Future Okpako, 23, ‘m’ of Oviri-Okpe group in Okpe Native Council; and Knowledge Akpohirowho, 20, ‘m’, of Jesse group in Ethiope West Native council, all residents of Sapele city.He mentioned different objects recovered embrace three cutlasses, telephones, and Automated Teller Machine (ATM) playing cards belonging to their victims.

MEANWHILE, the command quizzed two cops for allegedly brutalising a 90-year-old girl, and her daughter, one Ada Onochie. The officers hooked up to A Division Asaba had been additionally accused of utilizing “extreme drive” and stealing N250,000 and telephones belonging to 1 Blessing Michael and Jude Ojiugo-Onochie.

Narrating the incident, Ojiugo-Onochie, a social activist based mostly in Asaba, mentioned the officers who arrived in mufti forcibly entered his home at Konwean Road, Uda Format by Holy Ghost Motion Church, Asaba. He mentioned: “On April 30, at about 12:18 p.m., the 2 officers forcibly entered into the premises with out identification, or search or arrest warrant.

“The officers operated like armed hoodlums once they invaded our home. They spared no one all through the hours they carried out the heinous acts. This made us suspicious whether or not or not they had been certainly cops.

“They assaulted everybody, together with one Ada Onochie, a daughter of the home, and pushed down an aged girl of about 90 years.

“The lads went into the rooms, ransacked them, and made away with telephones, considered one of which belonged to Mrs Blessing Michael and myself, and money value N250,000 belonging to Onyeka Onochie.”

Following this growth, the household, by means of its authorized counsel, J.C. Dikedi, petitioned the Commissioner of Police, Abaniwonda Olufemi, demanding justice.