The Imo State Police Command on Monday said it has arrested Mr Chinonso Uba (Nonsonkwa) following a petition from a concerned citizen (name withheld).
The petition was based on viral videos where Uba was accused of cyberstalking, defamation, spreading misinformation, and making inflammatory statements about the burning of the National Open University (NOUN) Study Centre in Nsu, Ehime Mbano LGA, on September 30, 2024, inciting civil unrest.
A statement signed by the state police spokesperson, Henry Okoye, said, “The command clarified that he was not abducted. Nonsonkwa is currently detained at State Headquarters and will be arraigned in court with appropriate charges once a comprehensive investigation is completed.
“The Command remains committed to upholding the rule of law and maintaining peace and order in the state, emphasising that no individual involved in the tragic attack and burning of the NOUN study centre will escape full legal consequences.”
It was learnt that Nonsonkwa had questioned the news broadcast by TVC on why Imo State should be used as an IDP camp instead of addressing insecurity in Ehime Mbano, where the NOUN study centre is situated.
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The Eagle Online reported that suspected arsonists, in the early week of October, torched the residence of a former lawmaker, Sen. Frank Ibezim, at Ezeoke-Nsu in Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo.
The suspects, according to available information, also burnt down some facilities at the National Open University of Nigeria Study Center, also situated in the area.
It would be recalled that the attack came on the heels of a viral video report that the Federal Government planned to renovate the NOUN facility as a training ground for repentant Boko Haram insurgents.
The video followed a recent inspection visit by the Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Tijani Mohammed, to the national training facility for the vulnerable, located inside the NOUN study center.
Mohammed, who was accompanied on the visit by Ibezim, reportedly said in a TVC News interview that the inspection was in view of a training programme for vulnerable persons, which would commence at the centre before the end of the year.
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