DPO after my life, activist cries to Jonathan, IG

ONITSHA— Human rights activist, Mr. Martin Obinani Eloka, has accused the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, of a Police Division in Delta State (names withheld) of threatening his life for exposing alleged corrupt practices in his earlier petition to the Inspector-General of Police, IG, and President Goodluck Jonathan.
He said he was, therefore, sending an appeal to the IG and President to protect him and launch investigation into the corrupt practices of the DPO and his men.
In a strongly-worded petition, Eloka noted that consequent upon the threats to his life and family members by the DPO, he now lived in perpetual fear with his family members, particularly after the recent incident in which the police in the DPO’s jurisdiction stormed his house to effect his arrest in the middle of the night.
Eloka said: “On November 23, 2014, about six policemen in plain clothes, stormed my house at about 11pm. Because the door was closed, one of them scaled the fence, forced the door open and others came in.
“When I escaped from them, my wife, son and daughter were beaten and taken to the police station. My daughter sustained severe leg injury.”
Eloka said he was detained for two days in Asaba by the state Criminal Investigation Depart-ment, CID, over the petition he wrote to the IG and President.
He urged the IG, President Jonathan and the Police Services Commission, PSC, to come to his rescue and ensure justice to prevail, adding that he had gone into hiding to avoid his sudden death that might be masterminded by the police.
He said: “My offence was that I pleaded with them to release a man’s motorcycle because he could not afford N10,000 demanded by the police.
“Instead, they charged him to court when it was obvious that he could not afford the money.”
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