The Ogbe-Ozoma people of Okpanam community in Oshimili north local government area, Delta state have raised an alarm over alleged conspiracy by officers of the Rapid Response Squad, (RRS) of the Delta State Police Command

The community have alleged that the squad had attempted to assassinate one Mr. Chinedu Ofuani, an indigene of Ogbe-Ozoma village in Okpanam, in a ploy to cover up their track or rope him with the murder of two policemen in a disputed land in the community.

They said Ofuani was arrested, shot in the leg and narrowly escaped death before intervention came from the Police Force headquarters in Abuja to release him unconditionally.

In a press release, signed by some elders of the community: Chief Felix Okafor (Ikejiani of Okpanam), and three others, they accused the police of working in cohort with one Mr. Chinedu Aniekwe a.k.a Ekwe-Ogidi, an alleged land racketeer funding violence alongside the people of Akpoma community in Issele-Azagba of Aniocha north LGA, to dispossess the Ogbe-Ozoma people of their land inheritance from their forefathers.

Senior police officers were conspicuously mentioned as the ones aiding and abetting unprofessional conducts in the matter, having been alleged to have been compromised with over #40 million by the said Aniekwe, a hotelier in Asaba.

The Ogbe-Ozoma people claimed that about one year that the policemen were killed, there had been no concluded investigation on how they died, and there had been no autopsy result.

The people of Ogbe-Ozoma equally called on the IGP to investigate and prosecute those involved in sniffing life out of their traditional leader, Obi Victor Adi Nwaokobia who died on the 1^st of January, 2024, as a result of the torture he received from the police on his arrest and detention for over a month.

Delta Command Police Public Relations Officer, (PPTO), DSP Edafe Bright confirmed knowledge of the matter, stating that it has been an ongoing case.

“The case of who owns the land is not the business of the police; however, the business of the police in the matter is the murder of the police officers and carting away of their rifles.

“Honestly, I can’t tell the unit that is investigating the matter presently, but I know that at a time, the whole parties in the case were drafted to Abuja for further interrogations”, the PPRO explained. (Sunday Independent)

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