In what could best be described as an example of the increasing corruption in the Nigerian Police Force, two Police Corporals and an Inspector attached to the Rivers State Police Command have been arrested by the police in Aba, Abia State for dispossessing a businessman of his goods and selling same.
The policemen who are now cooling their heels in detention; Corporals Felix serving at Elelenwo police division and Goodluck of the OPS department, state Command headquarters, Port Harcourt and Inspector Francis of the same OPS department among another policeman, both at large, connived with three clearing agents to dispossess a business man of his goods at gun point and diverted same to Okigwe in Imo state where they sold off the consignment containing ice fish.
247ureports.com gathered that the three clearing agents arrested with the policemen; Chukwunyeke Dominion, Prince Dibia and Imhoitsike Okhai were said to have tipped off the four policemen about a truck carrying ice- fish from Onne Port in Rivers State to Aba.
The policemen later mounted an illegal checkpoint at the Imo gate boundary between Abia and Rivers states, pushed down the driver and his assistant and confiscated the consignment and diverted the truck to Okigwe in Imo state where they allegedly sold some of the goods to a waiting businessman while others were left to rot away.
The driver of the truck who reported the incident to the owner of the goods accused one of the clearing agents, Dibia of being behind the robbery.
The matter was later reported to the Police in Aba who arrested the clearing agent, Dibia who on interrogation disclosed how the truck was diverted to Okigwe. The two other clearing agents and two out of the four policemen involved in the act has been arrested while the Inspector and his unnamed colleague have been declared wanted by the police in Aba.
Police sources told 247ureports.com that the truck was later abandoned at Ulakwo in Owerri North LGA of Imo state after the consignments were sold off.
Contacted on phone, police public relations officer of the Abia command, ASP Ogbonna Geoffrey said asked our correspondent, “are you sure the incident happened in Abia state?”
