Several police and political sources have told
SaharaReporters that Sam Chukwu, a sinister police
officer reputed for masterminding a group of rogue
policemen who carried out kidnapping, armed robbery
and other major crimes in Enugu State, was recently
promoted and deployed to Lagos in order to fortify a
team of senior police officers charged with helping the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) carry out massive
rigging in Lagos State and other southwest states. Our
police sources named Mr. Chukwu, who is linked to a
major kidnap and murder case in Enugu, as a key player
in the scheme, whose leader is Assistant Inspector
General of Police Joseph Mbu.
“Sam Chukwu is one of the biggest criminals in the
police force. That is why Sir Mike Okiro gave him
promotion and sent him to Lagos in January,” a top
police source at police headquarters in Abuja told
SaharaReporters in a telephone interview. The officer,
who said he and numerous other officers were
incensed at the increasing use of police officers for
illegal assignments, added, “Instead of sacking Sam
Chukwu, they have sent him to Lagos today to join the
operation of rigging election.”
Prosecutors in Enugu State have accused Mr. Chukwu
of being the sponsor of a ring of kidnappers who once
menaced the state capital of Enugu and its surrounding
areas. Mr. Chukwu and his team of rogue officers were
reportedly responsible for the September 2009 kidnap
and presumed murder of Lotachukwu (Lota) Ezeudu, a
19-year old second year accountancy student at the
University of Nigeria, Enugu campus. One of the junior
officers involved in the kidnapping ring, Ernest Okeke, is
in detention undergoing trial, but another key player,
Desmond Chinwuba, remains in hiding.
Mr. Chukwu himself went into hiding for more than a
year and a half to evade a summons to stand trial in the
case. His failure to appear in court led Justice Afam
Nwobodo to issue a warrant for his arrest, with his
name appearing on wanted posters pasted in Enugu and
his hometown of Aninri in Awgu local government area.
For close to two years, police authorities claimed they
were unaware of Mr. Chukwu’s whereabouts. But in July
of 2014, with days left before his retirement, former
Inspector General of Police Mohammed Abubakar
reinstated the fugitive cop and posted him to the
headquarters of the southeast command to assume the
post of provost.
At the end of 2014, the Police Service Commission
headed by Mike Okiro, a former IG of Police, included
Mr. Chukwu’s name on a list of officers promoted to
assistant commissioner. In a secretive scheme, the
commission failed to release the names of all promoted
officers, a move meant to hide the inclusion of Mr.
Chukwu’s name, according to a senior police source in
Abuja.
With his promotion, Mr. Chukwu was posted to Lagos.
Several police sources in the state and Abuja have
disclosed that Mr. Chukwu’s assignment is to help
coordinate the harassment of voters and a series of
electoral practices aimed at helping the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) to rig the forthcoming elections
in Lagos and other southwest states. One officer
disclosed that Mr. Okiro had selected a special team of
officers with a criminal reputation and sent them to
work with Mr. Mbu to help the PDP manipulate polls in
the southwest. Top PDP officials, including Bode George
and former Minister of State for Defense Musiliu
Obanikoro, reportedly pressed President Goodluck
Jonathan to sign off on the ambitious rigging plan,
arguing that the ruling party may not be able to retain
power at the center without carrying a few southwest
states.
Our sources said, since his January 2015 deployment to
Lagos, Mr. Chukwu has been part of a group that meets
frequently with controversial Assistant Inspector
General Joseph Mbu to strategize about rigging the
elections scheduled to begin March 28. Our sources
said Mr. Okiro, Mr. Mbu and Mr. Chukwu were in
league on the rigging scheme, adding that the accused
kidnap kingpin had become notorious in Enugu State
where he helped rig elections for former Governor
Chimaraoke Nnamani and current deputy president of
the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu.
“He meets with AIG [Mbu] and it is understood that
their job is to prepare the Mopol and others they will
use to rig,” one of our sources in Lagos claimed. An
Abuja-based police source added that many officers
continued to question the reinstatement of Sam
Chukwu, and his deployment to Lagos to work with Mr.
Mbu, an officer known for his reckless willingness to do
the bidding of President Goodluck Jonathan and his
wife, Patience Jonathan. As a commissioner of police in
Rivers State, Mr. Mbu virtually went to war against
Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi who had a political
quarrel with the president and his wife.
Other sources said Mr. Chukwu has a reputation for
spearheading electoral fraud. An Enugu-based
businessman told SaharaReporters that it was well
known in Enugu that Mr. Chukwu was often hired to rig
elections for politicians. He said the rogue officer owns
numerous houses in the Trans-Ekulu area of Enugu,
adding that the properties were acquired from the
officer’s criminal activities.
In August 2005, Mr. Chukwu, who was then the DPO at
Ogui police station, was accused of ordering the
execution of a young man, Chinedu Ani, at the behest of
a then member of the House of Representatives U.S.A.
Igwesi. An Enugu-based lawyer familiar with the case
told our correspondent that Mr. Chukwu sent two
police officers after two young men who had had a
verbal encounter with the legislator. The policemen
cornered the young men in their car and opened fire,
killing one and seriously wounding the other.
The horrific daylight execution by the police, which
happened near ACB Bank on Ogui Road, Enugu, sparked
public protests. Then Governor Chimaraoke Nnamani of
Enugu State set up a panel headed by Justice Ken Ezeike
to investigate the police attack. Even though the panel
submitted a report, Mr. Nnamani’s government failed to
issue a white paper. An Enugu-based lawyer accused
then Governor Nnamani of bowing to pressure from
Senator Ekweremadu and other politicians in the state
to shield Mr. Chukwu from blame.
A human rights activist in Lagos said his group was
monitoring the activities of Mr. Mbu and Mr. Chukwu,
adding that it would take vigilance on the part of all
citizens to ensure that nobody can sabotage the wishes
of the electorate.


source: http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/27/rogue-cop-sam-chukwu-aig-mbu-plotting-rig-elections-southwest

Apc has started again with d propaganda
These guys are really afraid of mbu
I guess they are having sleepless nights thinking of how to handle mbu

When dey hear mbu all political thugs go into hiding