Kogi State Police Command has arrested the Inspector of Police whose wife sells Cannabis Sativa and other illicit drugs and also commenced investigation into the alleged clash between the Police and Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) personnel in Lokoja.
Recalled that on Monday, Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and officers of the Nigeria Police Force engaged in a physical tussle over the arrest of a police Inspector’s wife allegedly caught with a bag of Cannabis Sativa and other illicit drugs.
According to sources, the wife of the police inspector was arrested at the Area Command office while distributing the marijuana from her husband’s car, an ash Volkswagen parked inside the station.
However, when the NDLEA operatives moved to take her away with the vehicle, some policemen challenged them and it led to a fight.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police CP Bethrand Onuha, on Thursday, condemned the incident as he stated that the clash was avoidable as both personnel misunderstood themselves.
In a statement issued by SP William Ayah the Police Public Relations Officer, it stated that 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 where the woman was arrested and taken into the NDLEA vehicle.
“Furthermore, while the NDLEA personnel wanted to take away the car, one of the personnel on duty at the gate of the area Command Office challenged them that the car belonged to his colleague. But unknown to him the woman was trailed to the car and equally arrested with a package of substance suspected to be Indian hemp. Immediately a senior officer intervened and brought normalcy while the woman was taken away by the NDLEA operatives without any incident.
“The Inspector is in custody, he has been defaulted and orderly room trial has commenced.”
The Commissioner of Police reiterates the Command’s unwavering commitment to sustain the level of synergy between the Police and other sister security agencies in the State, advising the force especially the junior officers to eschew over-zealousness in the course of discharging their duties.
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