.. COMMENCES INVESTIGATION IN LINE WITH IGP ‘s ORDER
The Kogi State Police Command has commenced investigations into a trending video where Police personnel attached to Adogo Division, while on patrol duty along Adogo-Okene road, reportedly extorted the sum of Twenty-Five Thousand Naira (N25,000) from a traveller while another was physically assaulted by one of the men in uniform.
This was contained in a statement on Sunday signed by the state Police Public Relations Officer,DSP William Ovye Aya.
The statement said the Commissioner of Police, Kogi State Police Command, CP Idrisu Dauda Dabban, psc (+), fdc, while condemning the incident, noted that the Police officers have been identified and detained at the State Criminal Investigations Department. The officers are: ASP Isah Barnabas, Inspector Ifediegwu Godwin, Sgt Emmanuel Ochima and CPL Umameh Mathias who physically assaulted one of the travellers. The Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) has been issued an official query while the three (3) other junior officers are currently undergoing orderly room trial (Police internal disciplinary actions).
“The CP further noted that the Command is doing its best to establish contact with the victims. He enjoined the victims to reach out to the Command thorough 08107899269.
“He assured that any of the officers found wanting in the investigations would be dealt with accordingly.
Earlier, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba had ordered the Commissioner of Police,Kogi State Command to immediately carry out” discrete investigations into the incident depicted in the attached trending video from a location believed to be in Kogi State.
In a statement on Saturday in Abuja issued by the Force Public Relations Officer CP Frank Mba, said the IGP called for calm,” nothing that at the end of the investigations, justice will be done to the victim of the incident and police personnel found guilty, brought to book”.
