LG Chairman Calls On IGP, DSS To Investigate False Allegations Leveled Against Him
By Joyce Onuora Abakaliki
The Chairman of Afikpo South local government area of Ebonyi state,
Dr. Eni Uduma Chima have called on the Inspector-General of Police
Ibrahim Idris, National Security Adviser and head of the DSS to investigate
kidnapping and car snatching allegations leveled against him by some of
his political opponents in the local government.
Chima was accused of kidnapping and car snatching by a chieftain of
the All Progressive Congress who reported him to the police.
Chima’s residence at Watchman street Abakaliki was invaded at the
weekend by a team of policemen who arrested him and took him to
police headquarters in the state.
He was later released by the police after interrogation.
Chima who addressed journalists after his release said “I am crying
out to the Inspector-General of Police, the National Security Adviser,
the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, DSS to stop
politicians from using their men to harass their perceived opponents.
“A case such as kidnapping is very serious, it is a capital offence
and the penalty is death by hanging in Ebonyi state and when you now
use it so frivolously and call out police numbering over 150 to arrest
on particular person, the danger is when there is need for police to
troop out en-mass they may take it for granted that it s one of those
political abuses of the apparatus of state, phantom allegations that
are not existence and so their reaction time may not be swift, that
is the danger.
“Another danger is that when you keep framing people up, it will get
to a time they will develop resistance because the police or any
apparatus of the state get and sustain their legitimacy from the law,
doing what is lawful. If they are no more decent and they are used as
tools in the hands of desperate and unpopular politicians, they will
lose their legitimacy; people may no more volunteer information to
them or cooperate with them and at a time people may develop
resistance to them up to the extent of them not being able to do
arrests.” Chima said.
