HURIWA in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, said if found guilty, police officers who are culprits should face murder charges to forestall another national anti-police brutality protests like the #EndSARS uprising of October 2020.
The group condemned the alleged brutality and torture of Valentine Anierobi by Anambra State Police Command, the same Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), that was implicated for human organ trafficking allegations and for disappearance of many Igbo youths.
Anierobi was allegedly tortured and forced to confess that he was sent by Senator Ubanese to kidnap Dr. Kingsley Emoh, from Agbalagbo village in Nsugbe, who works at Eleme Petrochemical Company in Portharcourt.
HURIWA recalled that a man in a viral video, Valentine Anierobi, was allegedly tortured and forced to confess that he was sent by Senator Ubanesse to kidnap Dr. Kingsley Emoh, from Agbalagbo village in Nsugbe, who works at Eleme Petrochemical Company in Port Harcourt.
According to the group, ‘On January 3, 2023, Senator Ubanesse Igbeke, the Senator who represented Anambra North Senatorial District, was verbally invited by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of Police Zone 13, Ukpo – Dunukofia, Superintendent of Police (SP), Nkeiruka Nwode to the Zonal Headquarters.’
“The Senator got to Abuja and promptly petitioned the office of the Inspector – General of Police (IGP) on January 5, 2023, over what he ordinarily believed to be unnecessary harassment and intimidation. It was after the IGP directed investigation into the Senator’s petition, that SP Nwode officially wrote a letter of invitation to the Senator on January 10, asking him to report on January 12, 2023, which was clear seven days after the threats.
“The Anambra Police must be investigated immediately or the IGP and President Muhammadu Buhari may be risking persistent anti police brutality protests like EndSARS of 2020.”
MEANWHILE, Justice A. Enebeli of a Rivers State High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, has restrained Senator Aphonsus Ubanesse Igbeke and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) from arresting Dr. Stan Chinedu Emoh, intimidating , threatening or breaking into his premise pending the determination of the motion on notice.
Justice A. Enebeli also directed the respondents, who include: Deputy Inspector General of Police Force Headquarters, Abuja, Deputy Commissioner of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Abuja, Assistant Inspector General of Police Zone 13, Anambra State and Superintendent of Police (SP) Chinedum Okonkwo to stay action pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice already filed in the suit.
The court also granted the applicant (Dr. Stan Chinedu Emoh) leave to serve the motion to the respondents outside Rivers State in Anambra State and Abuja, Nigeria, and adjourned further hearing on the suit to March 24, 2023.
The suit filed by Dr. Chinedu Emoh, through his lawyer, C. H. Chibueze and Associate, following complaints of alleged threat to life, attempted kidnap and assassination made by Dr. Emoh against Senator Igbeke and Valentine Anierobi.
