You may remember Elvis Okafor. He went out to buy food for his sick mother in Orlu, Imo state, when he was accosted by security agents, accused of being IPOB/ESN, beaten and bundled to the Owerri, along with 20 other randomly arrested men. They were stripped to their underwear and made to take pictures with Biafran flags, arms and ammunition and drugs. The then Police Commissioner of Imo State, Abutu Yaro, gleefully paraded the innocent men as "ESN Operatives". Unfortunately for Abutu Yaro, relatives of the arrested men, including Elvis Okafor, raised the alarm on social media about how the men were framed, and this attracted the attention of mainstream media, including Punch Newspaper. As questions were raised about the legality of the men's arrest, Abutu Yaro was hurriedly transferred out of Imo State to protect him. Elvis Okafor has been released on Police bail and below is the report:

The Imo State Police Command has released Elvis Okafor, the 23-year-old boy arrested in the Orlu Local Government of the state and labelled an operative of the Eastern Security Network.

Okafor was reportedly released on Sunday, August 28, 2021.

Our correspondent had reported that the victim left his house to buy foodstuffs in the market for his ailing mother when he was arrested alongside two other persons.

PUNCH Metro also reported how Okafor was paraded by the state police command alongside 19 persons with different arms and ammunition displayed before them.

His relative, Gideon Dominics, raised the alarm after seeing his photograph on Facebook while being paraded by the police.

Dominics, in a post on Facebook, wrote, “This is my little cousin, Elvis Okafor; have you seen how dramatic Nigeria is? A little boy that went to buy foodstuffs for his sick mum is now a member of IPOB?

“A boy that came back from church and hasn’t eaten anything is now brandishing a gun as an ESN member? You see the Nigerian magic? Is this how innocent people are being framed daily?

While speaking with our correspondent on Monday, Dominic stated that his cousin had been released on bail.

“If you see my cousin, you will not believe he is the person. After spending 29 days in a police cell, he was looking sick and in need of medical attention,” he added.

Dominic stated that Okafor would not be able to speak immediately due to his condition.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mike Abattam, could not be reached as calls and a text message to his mobile phone were neither answered nor replied to.

https://punchng.com/after-punchs-reports-imo-police-free-man-labelled-ipob-operative/?amp

Congratulations to him.

Nigerian Police remains the most useless organization in the world.

How can you arrest and kill people just because you feel like.

There are bandits roaming around with AK-47 and GPMGs NPF suddenly does not know how to arrest en-masse.

But let a man be armed with a nylon of Akara and Indomie noodles for his aged mother, those filthy vermins will arrest and detain him for 6 months.

Idiots.

Congrats to him.
May many others, who are still languishing in police cell over unlawful and random arrests also be released.

Would have say "justice prevailed", but on a second thought, he had no wrong doing, just some unprofessional, cursed, ballistic men on black melting out pains to the innocent inoder to glorify theirmasters and the media.



Kindly check my signature

Waiting for testimony this Sunday.

And he wouldn't be compensated for such ill treatment may sudden death fall upon those who arrested him

All those who lined up here like a clan of starving and snarling hyenas to call for the heads of these people when the news of their evil arrests was reported here, should also line up to ask for forgiveness. Uzodinmma and Buhari have finished Imo State youths. Folks should also remember that in the initial report by the police, they claimed that this very boy was the one that took them around to show them where IPOB ESN will normally gather before proceeding to kill "security operatives". Obviously the police in Imo State are nothing but evil drama producers..

Thank goodness

Good to know

Get a good lawyer and sue the living daylight out of the police....

Northern Police Force are cursed. wetin those devil incarnates do me that year. na God go continue to punish them and there families. very anyhow people

I personally believe some brutal Nigerian police officers are fashioned from the pit of hell to torment helpless, defenceless and innocent citizens.

Keeping someone for 29days?. For what exactly?, but you parade Boko boys with carbon papers and sharing them cloths without taking them to prison while telling us they have repented. IMO state has the worst government at the moment!.

Zombies from the Sahel can bow their heads in shame

I can bet my balls that all those people paraded alongside the boy are all innocent, the useless police brought out those guns to frame them up. The most useless police for a reason

if you haven't ever been harrassed by this licensed armed robbers in the name of police you wouldn't tell exactly how it feels to be in the news for what you know nothing about

Nigeria Police Force is disgrace to the entire world

Unprofessionalism at it's peak as usual

Very useless set of people

The worst is that they get guns from evidence or where ever and display after arresting people illegally.

This should ideally be a gross misconduct on the part of the police for planting evidence where it doesn't exist.

The NPF is a disgrace to our nation.

Good for him.

The power of social media.

Nigerian police always tagging the innocent as guilty and torturing them to confess as criminals.

Thank goodness

If not for the cousin shouting out on social media, this innocent vibrant handsome young man's life would have been wasted just like that?

Who knows how.many more people that have been wasted like this without notice?

The useless police randomly arrest people, parade them with guns and other incriminating stuff and brand them ESN or IPOB members just to justify their evil agenda?

The irony of this whole event is it is supervised and encouraged by the most useless governor Hopeless Uzodimgba just to.please his foolish Fulani masters?

Hopeless Uzodinmgba remains an outcast in Igboland and must be ex communicated from Igboland.

Ohaneze Ndi Igbo should without hesitation declare him an enemy to Ndi Igbo,as he is willing to sacrifice the lives of Innocent youths to please his Fulani masters.

Imagine the rubbish. Detaining a young boy like this for months on false claims that he's part of the UGM. If this isn't animalistic, I don't know what it is.

Only God knows how many innocent people are languishing in detention on false allegation of being IPOB member.

Imagine the the kind of mental torture and emotional trauma that young man would have gone through during his illegal detention.

He would want to pick up a gun and shot any Police Officer on sight after what they have caused him


In a sane Country this guy would be compensated for being arrested and paraded along side alleged criminals.

God knows how many innocent people are still detained without anyone to speak out for them like this guy.



Abba Kyari na God go punish you and your collaborators

Just imagine

Bastardized country!!
That's how they keep killing and maiming innocent people for no just cause!!

Useless country that shouldn't even exist in the first place.