The Spokesman of the command, Cordelia Nwewe, made the disclosure on Wednesday while briefing newsmen on the arrest in Sokoto.
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Dr Hamza Sule, Managing Director of the company, made the disclosure in Enugu on Monday at a Pre-Retirement Seminar for Police personnel retiring between January 1 and June 30, 2018 for the South-East zone.
The medical examination comprising blood pressure, sugar level and cholesterol level check, was part of a pre-retirement programme for police personnel leaving the force between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2018.
Eze confessed to the police that he had no idea that the generators, which he bought from Okeke were stolen items.
This followed the continued protest by workers over the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari that the suspended NHIS helmsman, Prof. Usman Yusuf, be reinstated.
‘I find this whole episode quite nauseating and utterly condemnable. I cannot rationalise why just a statement would amount to subjecting me to rigorous interrogation especially when there was no complainant’
According to the police, an intelligence was received on January 21, 2018 at about 7pm through a text message received on a suspect’s phone in custody under investigation, which read: “Greetings sir, with due respect the trench town will sit out today @ Hero’s World Hotel, Itu road, by 7pm – Sheriff.”
The announcement was contained in an advertorial signed by the Force Public Relations Officer, Chief Superintendent of Police Jimoh Moshood
The directive followed a motion on “The need to Post Junior Cadre of Nigeria Police Force to their States and Local Government to enhance community policing in Nigeria” sponsored by Senator Ademola Adeleke.
The Divisional Crime Officer of Bwari Police station, SP Bumi Bulus, who confirmed the arrest, told News Agency of Nigeria that investigation on the matter was still ongoing.
The Commissioner of Police, Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi, disclosed this when he paid a courtesy visit on the Speaker, Akwa Ibom House of Assembly, Hon. Onofiok Luke, in Uyo on Tuesday.
The command’s Spokesman, Superintendent of Police, Ebere Amaraizu, said this in a statement on Saturday in Enugu.
The ultimatum is contained in a statement issued to newsmen in Gusau on Saturday by the command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Muhammad Shehu.
A reliable source close to the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos, on Friday.
President Muhammadu Buhari had in his response to a Senate letter to him said some individuals were arrested in connection with killings in the state with sub-machines gun in their possessions.
Irked by the development, the IGP, Ibrahim Idris, deployed operatives of the IRT to Abia State to arrest the kidnappers to justice.
Idris gave the warning at the monthly meeting with commissioners of police and above on Thursday in Abuja.
Confirming the incident to newsmen in Yola on Wednesday, the Spokesman of the Police Command in the state, SP Othman Abubakar, said the incident occurred following “a minor misunderstanding” around 10:45am at the Madagali Police Division.
The state had come under attack since January 1, 2018, with the Governor, Samuel Ortom, revealing that no fewer than 73 persons were killed on the first day of the year.
SP Abdu Jinjiri, the Police Spokesman in the state, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria in Dutse on Thursday.