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…The officer impregnated under-aged girl —Youth president

…Our children dropped out of school because of drug — Community elder

NKPOLU Community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State was in pandemonium on Tuesday as fierce looking policemen invaded following the alleged assault of a serving cop, Inspector Joseph Nyian, who was caught by the youths while taking illicit drugs. It was alleged that the police officer, who does not reside in the community only visited regularly to take the illicit drug, and that he was among the drug users nabbed and flogged by the youths.

The police officer, had after the incident quickly rushed to the Police Command’s hospital in Port Harcourt, obtained a doctor’s report and entered a case of torture and stealing against the youths of the community. He claimed that he had only visited his girl friend, who was pregnant for him, before the youths pounced on him and flogged him. He also claimed that the youths extorted N78,000 from him, and that he transferred the sum to the youth President, Owhondah Chamberlain.

The Police Public Relations Officer of the state Command, Grace Iringe-Koko, had corroborated the officer’s claims in a statement, noting that a case of assault and sealing was reported against the youths by the police officer serving in the Woji Area of Obio/Akpor LGA.

Iringe-Koko said that the officer had visited his pregnant girlfriend in the area and that the youths descended on him because their youth President had been interested in his lady. In a reprisal action, policemen invaded the community and arrested over 20 people.

The youths’ action

Troubled by the spike in drug activities and its attendant effects, the youths of the community had vowed to stamp out drug sale and purchase in the area, noting that the menace was threatening the future of their youths. The youths led by their Chairman, Comrade Owhondah Chamberlain, commenced a raid of all the areas where drug sellers and users met. In the course of their activities, the youths arrested three of the dealers and handed them to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. The youths also closed down all the drug sale points in their community. The youths who were patrolling all the nooks and crannies of the community only flogged the drug users and let them go while the dealers who were caught were sent to the NDLEA for investigation and prosecution.

The Youth President of Nkpolu Community, Comrade Owhondah Chamberlain said that the devastating effect of drugs was alarming and it was something that they could no longer condone. Nkpolu youths therefore decided to work with the Law Enforcement Agency to flush out the drug dealers once and for all. Their campaign tagged, “Operation Say no to Drug”, affected both indigenes and non indigenes and since the youths started it, drug sales and use have stopped in the community. He noted that the NDLEA was in total support of what they were doing and even promised to fully support them.

NDLEA behind our resolve to stamp out drug activities——Youth president

He said: “By the grace of God, since we started the operation, there has been nothing like selling and taking of drugs in our community as we have shut down everywhere they were selling and taking the drugs and we will not rest in this action. They sell Cocaine, Colos, Thailand, Ice, Crystal White, Stone, Charlie and others. All these illicit drugs were sold here. Since we notified the NDLEA of what was happening here, they were fully in support of what we were doing. They promised us that they would ensure that the issue of drugs was eradicated in our community. Presently, we have three of the drug barons in their custody.

“We did not take laws into our hands, we want the government to take care of them. When we see a dealer, we send them to the NDLEA but when we get a user, we help them to stop drug abuse. After we had chased the drug sellers and the users from our community, we discovered that a man who later turned out to be a police officer, was taking drugs and gathered some people and told them to continue taking drugs that nothing would happen to them because he was a police officer. When we got to where six of them were taking the drugs, three of them ran away, but the police officer remained and told the other two not to run that he was a policeman. Because he was not wearing a uniform, we did not identify him as a policeman. Our interest was to sanitise the community of drug abuse. We cannot say that because he was a policeman we should allow him to continue encouraging people to take hard drugs.

“The police officer then vowed that he would mobilise his men and unleash terror on the community and arrest all the youths. The police should conduct a drug test on him, he is one of the officers denting the image of Nigeria Police. He had vowed that he would arrest all the youths including me. He also claimed that he sent N78,000 to me, the police should go to the bank and check my bank account to find out the truth. There was no such thing.

“It is also not true that I was interested in the girl that the police officer impregnated because the girl in question is my sister, so why would I compete with him over the girl. Moreover, the girl is under-aged, she is just 15 years old, she is not yet 18 years old recognised by the Nigerian constitution as an adult.

He is only looking for a defense to cover up his addiction, he is a drug addict. He is one of those tarnishing the image of Nigeria police. Whenever a drug user was arrested here, he would go there and push for settlement and release of the person.”

Our children are dropping out of school because of drug addiction – Elders

An elder in the community, Mr. Okechukwu Aka, regretted that some of their children who successfully gained admission into universities have dropped out because of drug addiction. Aka noted that some have sold their property less than its value because they craved for drugs, noting that many girls were into drugs.

Aka said: “Drug activities in our community have gone beyond the level that if we don’t take action with the collective effort of our youths things will go worse. We have now discovered that even our brothers and sons who gained admission into the universities could not graduate because of drug activities. Some of them have sold property like houses which their fathers left for them. The amount of money they collected in selling the property was far below the actual value, just because they wanted to take drugs. You would see them selling a property of N30m for just N3m because of drugs. So, our people resolved that we should no longer sit and watch our youths being destroyed. Women in drugs are even becoming more numerous than the boys. What we have done is to say “no more drugs”.

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God will heal this great nation in Jesus mighty name.

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This land is not for sale. Beware of 419

The youths have been arrested. What has been done to the officer? You might condemn the youths' actions, saying it is a mark of disrespect to an officer of the law. But, is someone that takes illicit drugs really an office of the law? In fact, he was not on duty when the youths dealt with him.

If the police commission is sincere, it would have first of all investigated whether the officer actually took illicit drugs, instead of claiming that the youths flogged the officer because the president of the youths is interested in the officer's girlfriend. Even if the president of the youths is interested in the officer's girlfriend, didn't/doesn't the officer take drugs? Have there not been other cases where the same youths apprehended and punished consumers of illicit drugs? What exactly does the police commission want to achieve by bringing up the allegation that the youths' president is interested in the officer's girlfriend?

You might condemn the youths' action, calling it jungle justice. But what had the government or the police done before the youths decided to protect themselves and their community? Again, flogging is not that severe. Flogging is nothing compared to what police officers do to people everyday at checkpoints.

This is like the case of IPOB and headsmen. Herdsmen have been killing and destroying. No herdsman has been brought to book. But the moment IPOB rose up in self defense, python dance and so many other things started coming from the federal government against IPOB. I see some officers openly wrapping 'Igbo' at some checkpoints. I have also witnessed many occasions where officers arrest or extort road users for being in possession of 'Igbo'.

Say no to drug Abuse.

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Seun if u don't want us to comments again, tell us instead of frustrating us. Because I don't understand why someone will comments, not bad comments, and u will removed the comment and still ban d person. Or are u selective in who can comment and abuse someone then go scot free.

What is there in this comments that u removed and still ban me?.

I said "God will heal this great country, then I said FTC" so why removed it and still ban me?

princeade86:
Seun if u don't want us to comments again, tell us instead of frustrating us. Because I don't understand why someone will comments, not bad comments, and u will removed the comment and still ban d person. Or are u selective in who can comment and abuse someone then go scot free.

What is there in this comments that u removed and still ban me?.

I said "God will heal this great country, then I said FTC" so why removed it and still ban me?

The Chicago drug dealer has been funding him hence his recent shenanigans, its no wonder the forum is going down the drain lately.

Dem no dey flog federal government pikin (police, army, youth corper etc). The junky officer should have been handed over to the nearest DPO with his exhibits and video evidence instead for orderly room trial and possible dismissal

What happened to community policing. Police arrest police, next news please

Jungle justice is just a no no for me
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Jungle justice is not good at all. Some of the people that lost their lives through jungle justice are innocents.

I guess the youths involved in this have been arrested already,even the police should never arrest you for any reason and subject you to this kind of assault.

I see a clear case of conflict of interest.

The police should be applauding the bold actions of the community president and youths, just as NDLEA had done.

From all what i read up there, the youths are making the work of policing the community even easier. A sizable number of criminals and miscreants take illicit drugs. This is what fuels their deviant activities of mischief.

Now the youths have cut off the supply thereby reducing crime in the community but guess what? The organization that should even be the best beneficiary of this operation by the youths are now the primary saboteurs

Why?? Because "one of their own" is a culprit. Not only is he engaging in hard drugs trade, he is also an end user and encourages others to follow suit as well . To cap it all, he is a paedophile who had sexual intercourse with a minor he was supposed to protect and impregnated her in the process , to show the lack of shame, he is proudly calling her his "Girlfriend".

This is a 5 count charge and should be the height of disgust and embarrassment an Officer of the law could bring to the noble police force. To show that he knew what he was doing, from the write-up, he chose to carry out his illicit activities while on mufti.

With all these huge allegations in place, the force did not deem it fit to investigate, their primary instinct was to cover-up and unleash mayhem on the youths and community that dared to expose the nefarious activities of this randy officer.

So.....the same ol mantra came up "We must defend one of our own, even though he has committed a heinous crime"

This mantra has done more harm than good. We see this in politics, at the workplace, in our religious institutes and even in our homes and villages. This mantra is the reason why Nigeria has failed in all strata of morality and nation building.

I must say, i am very much ashamed of the actions taken by the law enforcement officers here.

Who empowered the youths to flog a drug abuser? Mob action. When Nigerians suddenly have power as a result of being in large numbers, you see a silent an dangerous side of them.

Youth leader

Are u a mugu

Why u collect transfer enter your account?

If You Don't Need Serious Flogging, Stop Taking Hard Drugs On Uniform!

The Arrest Is Terrible!

Flogging an officer, you should expect arrest... nonsense. You have no right to flog anyone, what nonsense.

The police has raided the community, the police were led by the policeman the youths flogged

The right thing to do is hand them over to the appropriate authority.

The actions of the youths are highly reprehensible, unconstitutional, and a gross violation of their fundamental human rights.

They have done the right thing by being vigilant, but threw it all away by subjecting them to such inhuman and degrading treatment.

I don't even believe the police reports one bit or will say allegations, they'd cook up stories to justify their inadequacies, the so called inspector or whatever shouldn't be caught with drugs in the first place but look where we are.

An officer of the law now turn druggie, what do I expect...

This country na pure cruise abeg

What da heck is this

What if he's on undercover mission? this is completely unacceptable. Too many uneducated people in Nigeria acting recklessness and claiming 'woke' minds...How can you justify flogging a police officer? Tomorrow, when arrests begin, the same people will start crying foul and making baseless claims

Politefellow:
Jungle justice is not good at all. Some of the people that lost their lives through jungle justice are innocents.

if they know he is a police officer, they should v handed him over since he didnt kill or beat any person

As police don turn agbaya. Make youths police the policemen.

Is this not self help? Flogging uniformed officers. This is what Nigeria has been reduced to. No moral anywhere again. Hope they have correct gates. Ipadabo Abija.

[quote author=princeade86 post=136628419]Seun if u don't want us to comments again, tell us instead of frustrating us. Because I don't understand why someone will comments, not bad comments, and u will removed the comment and still ban d person. Or are u selective in who can comment and abuse someone then go scot free.

What is there in this comments that u removed and still ban me?.

I said "God will heal this great country, then I said FTC" so why removed it and still ban me? [U spoke my mind ...I think none APC supporters are the target of ban...but those who insult others like obi or Atiku is spared....people abuse or criticise other politicians here without getting banned but once u criticise APC politicians u will get banned...however to do justice to the topic the youths shouldn't have taken laws into their hands ...they should have handed both the sellers and users of drugs to NDLEA....because if the users were taken to the appropriate authorities, all this wahala would have been avoided....if there's no one using drugs the drug barons will stop selling....selective justice is what is increasing the anyhowness in our country

Lanretoye:
I guess the youths involved in this have been arrested already,even the police should never arrest you for any reason and subject you to this kind of assault.

Idiots
Can you imagine
Even the police should nothave the power to arrst and torture not to talk of youth president
Animals in human form
The so called youth president hould be arrested too
You become judge and executioner in your own case
Criminals

princeade86:
Seun if u don't want us to comments again, tell us instead of frustrating us. Because I don't understand why someone will comments, not bad comments, and u will removed the comment and still ban d person. Or are u selective in who can comment and abuse someone then go scot free.

What is there in this comments that u removed and still ban me?.

I said "God will heal this great country, then I said FTC" so why removed it and still ban me?

I have notice this several times without number, I think the FTC of a thing has something we don't know. I guess the FTC comment has been assigned to some certain moniker.

Slawoomir:
I see a clear case of conflict of interest.

The police should be applauding the bold actions of the community president and youths, just as NDLEA had done.

From all what i read up there, the youths are making the work of policing the community even easier. A sizable number of criminals and miscreants take illicit drugs. This is what fuels their deviant activities.

Now the youths have cut off the supply thereby reducing crime in the community but guess what? The organization that should even be the best beneficiary of this operation by the youths are now the primary saboteurs

Why?? Because "one of their own" is a culprit. Not only is he engaging in hard drug trade, he is also consuming it and encouraging others to do so as well. To cap it all, he is a paedophile who impregnated a 15 year old child who he is proudly calling his "Girlfriend". This should be the height of disgust and embarrassment an Officer of the law could being to the noble police force.

With all these huge allegations in place, the force did not deem it fit to investigate, their primary instinct was to cover-up and unleash mayhem on the youths and community.
So.....the same ol mantra came up "We must defend one of our own, even though he has committed a heinous crime"

This mantra has done more harm than good. We see this in politics, at the workplace, in our religious institutes and even in our homes and villages.

An old uncle would always say;

If you're looking for the greatest thieves, go to the organisation that tackles theft, you'll find them hiding there.
Same goes for Human rights etc.

I didn't understand him back then but as the years go by, I'm beginning to see a lot of wisdom in his statement.

What you have said s arrant nonsense and nothing more than criminality and illegality
Whatcif someone dies in the process
Learn to follow the law and use your brain sometimes
No
Capital No to jungle justice

The uniformed personnel desecrated the land, and the customary court Judge pronounced the judgment according to their customs and, the officer received his punishment according to the law.

No one is above the law.

You yourh shouldn’t take law into their hands. They are not back by law to flog anyone. What they are doing is illegal and they will face the consequences

Bullfallo:
You yourh shouldn’t take law into their hands. They are not backed by law to flog anyone. What they are doing is illegal and they will face the consequences

You mean there is no Justice of Peace or customary judge in the community? Nigerian laws recognise customary laws.