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Corruption Not Peculiar To Police, … Enugu CP

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Ag. IGP SOLOMON E. ARASE
Ag. IGP SOLOMON E. ARASE

By Ogbonna Casmir

Enugu State police commissioner, Mr. Emmanuel Ojukwu, yesterday said that corruption was not peculiar to the police as it has become a national problem.

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The commissioner stated this while responding to the return of road block and police extortion of tricycle operators and commercial drivers absolved his men saying that corruption have become the greatest problem of this country raising his head high that no policeman is among the corruption cases under investigation by the federal government.

Ojukwu assumed duty recently as the Enugu police chief following the transfer of his predecessor, Nwodibo Ekechukwu to Rivers State.

The police boss who used the occasion to parade some suspected criminals at police headquarters, said that corruption was a Nigerian problem that should be tackled by all but not a police matter alone.

“Corruption is a Nigerian problem.  Let’s all join hands together to fight corruption,” he said.

He said that police has an internal mechanism to deal with any of her personnel found wanting in his duties.

“The issue of corruption is not peculiar to the police.  We have a mechanism of fishing out corrupt officers in our midst.  A good number have been sacked while some have had their ranks reduced.

“We have been preaching against corruption.  When you notice a corrupt officer, report such one; we have a mechanism of checking the excesses of our men,” Ojukwu points out.

Ojukwu also said that they have been preaching the “gospel of good conduct,” he said, pointing out that that officers that perform creditably gets pat at the back while those that fall foul, go in for it.

The new police boss, in a speech before parading the suspects that include armed robbers, kidnappers as well as rapists and child defilers, commiserated with all the victims of the Nimbo killing saying that every reasonable measures are being taken to ensure that such ugly incident never occurred anywhere again.

He said that he has visited the Ukpabi-Nimbo and stated that anybody involved in the mayhem would be fished out to face the law.

He admonished the people of the state not to panic because of rumour making the rounds that the herdsmen might attack one community or the other, saying that they should report authentic information.

The commissioner appraised the performance of the force since he took charge recently.

“In the last one week, I have been able to do  assessment of crimes in state such as cultism, herdsmen menace, kidnapping have identified,” he said.

Ojukwu said that some of those arrested include ten men arrested at Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State for engaging in armed robbery and gun manufacturing.

He said that a number of guns where recovered from them and they were paraded before news men.

Two ladies conspired at Obinagu Udi, to kidnap their own mother to extort money from their brother living in Lagos and they were arrest, while two young men were arrested at Enugu-Ezike, Igbo-Eze North local government area for kidnapping a 9-year old boy.

Paraded during the briefing include a group of cult group known as Aiye fraternity who killed a member of a rival group called, Baggers.

One of those paraded, Mr. Livinus Amadi from Aku in Igbo-Etiti, told newsmen that he is a security man and was at his duty post on May 5, 2016 when five people came to him from Igbo-Etiti Central and demanded to have his gun saying that the chairman of neigbourhood watch asked them to recover the gun from him.

He explained that when he declined to surrender his gun, they began to struggle with him and in the process, the gun went off and killed a man nereby.

Amadi said he was beaten to stupour and later found himself in police net and lamented that as a result, his house and car were set on fire.

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