The Imo State Commissioner of Police, Aboki Danjuma has ordered the immediate arrest of operatives of the Command’s Anti Kidnapping Unit for allegedly assulting a nursing mother and her children.
In a viral video online, Mrs. Ogechi Eze narrated in Igbo language how operatives of the command’s Anti Kidnapping unit popularly known as Tiger-Base physically assaulted her, her mother and children while trying to arrest her husband.
The woman said she was threatened by the officers as they dragged her into her room to prevent eyewitness from recording their activities.
Reacting to the incident, the commissioner of police, Imo state said he has ordered the arrest of officers involved in the incident.
According to a press statement by the command’s spokesman, Henry Okoye, the assaulted woman had been advised by the CP to report at the Police Public Relations Department, Command Headquarters, Owerri to help identify the officers.
He said: “The Imo State Police Command is not unaware of a video making the rounds on social media, in which a nursing mother who identified herself as Mrs. Ogechi Eze, alleged that she and her children were assaulted by operatives of the Command’s Anti kidnapping unit, (Tiger Base) as their operational call-sign and is currently carrying out a comprehensive investigation to ascertain the remote facts of the case.
“Accordingly, the Commissioner of Police Imo State Command, CP Aboki Danjuma has ordered the immediate arrest and detention of the alleged officers and tasked the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of the Command’s X-Squad and Provost to ensure that the alleged officers are sanctioned in accordance with the Force’s extant laws if found culpable.
“The Command, therefore, encourages Mrs. Ogechi to report at the Police Public Relations Department, Command Headquarters, Owerri, to assist in identifying the officers in the ongoing investigation.
“The Commissioner of Police Imo State Command reaffirms that the Command under his watch will never condone any form of unprofessionalism, arrest by proxy, assault, or incivility to members of the public by its personnel and will not hesitate to take appropriate disciplinary actions against any recalcitrant officer infringing on the fundamental human rights citizens whom we have the constitutional mandate to serve and protect.
“Further developments on this case will be communicated to the general public in due course,” he stated.
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