…Lawyers React
-Precious Ahiakwo-Ovie
The Rivers State Police command has denied intimidating, harassing Chinedu Orlu-orlu,a reporter with Today 95.1fm when they used him to lure, arrest Kingsley Victor Woko, Community Development Chairman of Rumuaholu in ,Obio/Akpor LGA last Monday.
Ike Wigodo, the Secretary of Nigeria Union of Journalist (NUJ), Rivers State chapter, in an interview with Journalists yesterday (Wednesday 7, June, 2023) said when he went to meet the leadership of the Police in the state, the Commander of the Commissioner of Police (CP) monitoring unit in charge of the matter disclosed that Mr Orlu-orlu was not harassed or intimidated when he was used to lure, arrest the suspect.
Meanwhile, Mr. Orlu-orlu has described as misrepresentation of fact, the statement credited to the unit Commander.
In an interview with Journalists, Mr. Orlu-orlu said “If the Police will deny they did not harass me, they are lying. They harassed me, they took me out on gunpoint, all of them that came, five of them were with guns.
“After they dialled his number in my phone and his line came out in my phone, as the current CDC Chairman. They told me that if I don’t produce him, they would hold me down, even if is two years, that they will deal with me.
“I asked them the station they came from, they did not tell me the station, they are coming from, they said they will not tell me anything, until I will know where I am by this evening.
“So they threatened me, I was so afraid, they came like kidnappers, they did not come like normal Police Officers .There was no form of identification. They (Police) came in a kidnapping form.
“They threatened my life. Immediately they used my line to call him and then he came out, they pushed me away in his presence before the entire community where people were seeing that this is the man who he (CDC Chairman) usually call to come and run news for him. It now looks like I am the one who brought the Police to come and carry him
“I did not believe they were Police Officers until the lawyer (man’s lawyer) searched and found out that they are in State CIID.
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