Metro/Crime
NDLEA, Police Clash Over Police Inspector’s Wife Caught With Hard Drugs
In a statement issued by the command’s spokesman, Williams Ovye-Aya, the police chief expressed surprise over the alleged incident.
Police commissioner Bethrand Onuoha has ordered an investigation into the alleged clash between the police and National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) officers in Kogi over an inspector’s wife allegedly caught with hard drugs.
Mr Bethrand condemned the incident and stated that the clash was avoidable since both personnel misunderstood themselves.
“It was revealed that the operatives of NDLEA trailed the woman who turned out to be the wife of an inspector of police attached to area command, Lokoja, to the car where it was parked in front of Bishop Delisle College opposite the Area Command Office.
“The woman was arrested and taken into the NDLEA vehicle with the intention of taking her away. But one of the police personnel on duty at the gate of the Area Command Office challenged the NDLEA officials.
“But unknown to him, the woman was trailed to the car and equally arrested with a package of substance suspected to be Indian hemp,” said the statement.
It was gathered that, “Luckily, a senior police officer intervened and brought normalcy while the woman was taken away by the NDLEA operatives without any incident. The said police officer (an inspector) is already in custody. He has been defaulted and orderly room trial has commenced.”
The commissioner reiterated the command’s unwavering commitment to sustaining the synergy between the police and other sister security agencies in the state for optimum results.
He, however, advised all command personnel, especially the junior ones, to eschew over-zealousness in their duty to avoid such unwanted infractions.
When contacted, the Kogi NDLEA commander, Olusegun Adeyeye, confirmed the incident and that the woman was in the agency’s custody.
“The said suspect and the substance are in our custody. Investigations have commenced to enable the law to take its cause,” Mr Adeyeye said.
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