ENUGU CP ORDERS INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGED BATTERING OF POLICEWOMAN BY AREA COMMANDER

RRPORTER: CHUKWUBUIKE MADU

The Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, Mr. Abubakar Lawal, has ordered investigation into the alleged beating of a female police sergeant, Helen Onoja, by an Assistant Commissioner of police in the state, Mr. Oluseyi Okenla.

A story has been making the rounds on social media and blogs, alleging that an Assistant Commissioner of Police and Area Commander in-charge of Enugu Metro Area Command, Mr. Okenla, physically assaulted a policewoman, Sergeant Onoja, for no justifiable reasons.

A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, Mr. Daniel Ndukwe Ekea, says the Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of the State CID Enugu has been mandated to conduct a thorough and conclusive investigation into the allegation.

According to the statement “the investigation is in view of establishing the facts surrounding the allegations and apportioning appropriate disciplinary sanctions on whoever is found culpable.”

The statement assured members of the public, who were worried by the alleged trending story, that anyone found culpable, would be given adequate punishment.

“The CP, while reassuring the general public that no stone will be left unturned in getting to the root of the matter and meting out appropriate sanctions, notes that the Nigeria Police Force remains a regimented and disciplined Agency of Government that has stopped at nothing to subject its personnel (male or female, or of senior or junior rank) to extant disciplinary codes, processes and punishments whenever they erred,” it said.

The statement added that “the Commissioner has enjoined the general public to avoid creating and/or peddling skewed narratives over the incident as alleged, while urging all and sundry to count on the Command to activate the investigative and internal disciplinary mechanisms of the Nigeria Police Force to ensure that justice prevails.”