SAGE Journals

Edward Nnachi, Abakaliki THE Financial Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Ebonyi State chapter, Okenwa Uka, has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, over the alleged misconduct and harassment by Officer-in-Charge of the Anti-Cultsm Unit at the Enugu State Police Command, DSP Chidobe Ekeleme. The APC chieftain alleged that Ekeleme illegally obstructed his group’s meeting in Enugu on Friday, September 6 and Sunday, September 8, 2019, for refusing to pay him N2m as bribe. Uka, who is also the South-East Zonal Director of De Norsemen Kclub Inc, said the likes of Ekeleme had given a bad reputation to the Nigeria Police Force. Uka, during a meeting with journalists, said, “We were never arrested nor paraded, but ill-treated, for failure to give Ekeleme the sum of N2m bribe. “The overzealous police officer by name, DSP Chidobe Ekeleme, came to a venue, where we (De Norsemen Kclub Inc. members) were having our zonal convention. He told me that the Commissioner o...

Why DSP, Chidobe Ekeleme of Enugu State Police Command is after us - De Norsemen Kclub International Magnus Eze, Enugu No fewer than 20 members of a humanitarian organisation, De Norsemen Klub International (DNKI), were on Monady, paraded as common criminals at the Enugu State Police Command. The police had last weekend, allegedly disrupted the group’s South East zonal conference at a highbrow hotel in GRA, Enugu, and arrested some of their members. Leader of the club in the South East, Comarde Okenwa Uka, who addressed newsmen at the premises of the magistrate court, where they were arraigned and subsequently granted bail by Magistrate Dennis Eko, accused the police of witch hunting them for allegedly failing to give N2million to the officer in charge of the anti-cult unit of the command. Explaining how the police in Enugu branded the organization a cult group, he said that they were shocked to hear from the police prosecutor that the evidence they had against them was the ba...