Officers from the Inspector-General of Police Monitoring Unit, under the office of Commissioner of Police, Mobile Police, on Tuesday, arrested some fake and improperly dressed police officers during a raid around the River Niger Bridge area, at the Asaba/Onitsha boundary.

The officers, led by a Superintendent of Police, Aniete Eyo, were sighted around the bridge and several riot police officers, some not fully dressed in police uniform, took to their heels on sighting the unit. some were however unlucky as they were apprehended and forced into the waiting van.

One of the officers who does not want to identified explained that six policemen were arrested for wearing illegal T-shirts and monkey jackets on top of their police uniforms. He further explained that another wore mufti face cap on a khaki-monkey jacket while another wore something that has police colour lining on the shoulder with the inscription, Gwoza – I have been there, on the back.

“We remove two (mobile policemen) on illegal escort duty from inside a Sport Utility Vehicle. A fake policeman was also arrested from a hideout, from where they hatch their operations of harassing people, while others ran away. Another one was caught with Pump Action gun. We arrested all of them and we are still moving around.”

“The Commissioner of Police has made spirited efforts to get some arrested before the arrival of the IG’s team.”

When contacted, the Delta State Commissioner of Police, Ikechukwu Aduba, confirmed that the monitoring unit came from Abuja.






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