Police To Probe Alleged Personnel Invasion Of Imo Businessman’s House, Missing N16m

The Imo State Police Command has pledged to travel its regularisation of engagement to found the purported penetration of the location of a businessman, Mr Kinsley Chijioke Offor, successful Okigwe connected April 16, 2025, by immoderate of its officers.

The command’s nationalist relations officer, Mr. Henry Okoye, told LEADERSHIP that arsenic a liable organisation that operates according to the rules of engagement, owed process would beryllium followed to found the committee of the alleged offences and the officers involved.

The complainant (Offor) had written a petition to the Police Service Commission successful Abuja, successful which helium claimed that connected the said date, equipped policemen from Tiger Base successful Owerri, successful connivance with Mr Policap Nnlemadin, a constabulary serviceman attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) Owerri, raided his location astatine Cameroon Street, Ubahu Okigwe, astatine astir 11 p.m. without notice/invitation.

He identified the constabulary officers progressive successful the raid arsenic Chidi Ibere Igwe, Mr. Adamu and the officer-in-charge (O/C), who instructed his boys, each of Tige Base, Owerri, to transportation retired the raid.

In the petition titled: “Complaint of Threat to Life, Intimidation, Stealing and Abuse of Power”, Offor, done his lawyer, Mr. David Okoro, accused the constabulary officers of taking distant N16 cardinal belonging to him and his tenants successful the six flats successful his compound.

Offor besides accused the officers of seizing 2 laptops owned by 1 of the tenants, onshore and instrumentality documents successful a container and a licensed pump-action gun.

He besides claimed that his nursing woman was arrested and detained by the constabulary officers for months.

According to the lawyer, “the traumatic lawsuit has endangered our client’s life, collapsed his concern and forced him into hiding.”

Offor, therefore, successful the petition which was received and acknowledged by the PSC connected August 4, 2025, appealed to the committee to intervene by ordering “a thorough and broad probe into the penetration of his residence and theft, the instrumentality of the stolen currency and documents, and the assurance of my state and extortion from further harassment.”

When contacted connected Okoro’s allegations, Okoye (PPRO) said arsenic a “responsible and responsive outfit, we person an operational manual, which is being followed procedurally.

“We enactment successful accordance with our rules of engagement, and we travel the aforesaid procedure.”

He encouraged Nigerians to study specified incidents to the due authorities for punctual response.

Okoye said, “Things indispensable beryllium done appropriately and successful enactment with the rules arsenic this volition alteration punctual response.

“We volition spell done our records and find retired if this incidental was reported to the bid and get backmost to you,” helium told LEADERSHIP successful Owerri.