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UK-Based Nigerian Petitions Police AIG Over Police
Extortion, Unprofessional Conduct
Metro
By Titilope Joseph On Nov
8, 2022
LAGOS – A Nigerian Medical doctor based in Great Britain, United Kingdom,
Dr. Chinwike Oke-Nwosu, has petitioned the Assistant Inspector General of
Police in charge of Zone 13, Zonal Police Command, Anambra State, over an
alleged unprofessional conduct by an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP
Famous Ali.
Dr. Okey-Nwosu accused the police officer of extortion, adding that when
he failed to meet up with the demand, the former allegedly tried to send him to
jail over a trumped up charges.
Oke-Nwosu in the petition through his counsel, Mr. Justice Oguguo, urged
the AIG to use his good offices to investigate the complaint and bring the
police officer and the suspect he lodged complaint against, to book.
He stated that he started facing the alleged-ill treatment from the
Assistant Superintendent of Police attached to Zone 13, when he protested the
use of the only access way to his building in the Amawbia community as a petroleum
depot.
He alleged that the owner of the depot demolished his barbed wire walls
last October and further threatened him with a Pump Action Gun.
The matter according to him was reported at the Zone 13 Command,
consequent upon which the owner of the depot was arrested but immediately
released on bail.
Oke-Nwosu further alleged that the Investigation Police Officer assigned
to look into the matter, especially the use of a gun to threaten him,
compromised because he did not give him (policeman) the sum of N300,000
demanded for as mobilisation fee.
He said, “When I could not afford the N300,000 demanded by ASP Ali, he
compromised the investigation and told me that he had conducted private
investigation and discovered that the unlicensed Pump Action gun owned by
owner of the petroleum depot, belongs to the Town’s Vigilante and that he was
told that my damaged wall fence was done by him
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