Months after he was arrested with four of his friends and tortured to death, the Rivers State Police Command has expressed readiness to arraign its officers liable for the murder of Chima Ikwunado, an Ikoku mechanic who was killed in December 2019.
Ikwunado was tortured to death by officers attached to the Eagle Crack unit of the command for a minor traffic offence.
The case has lingered since then after protests broke up in Port Harcourt over his gruesome killing.
Joseph Mukan, the Rivers State Police Commissioner assured members of the Rivers State Civil Society Organization last week that the officers will be charged to court this month.
Comrade Enefaa Georgewil, the coordinator of the organization had during the meeting which held on the 19th of June had expressed disappointments over the delay in the prosecution of the culpable officers in the death of Chima Ikwunado and torture, imprisonment of the Ikoku4.
Georgewill further reminded the C.P that posterity will not be fair to all involved in the matter who failed to let justice prevail.
The group also expressed similar disappointment in the matter of the Landlady and her Tenant in Rumuokwurusi and that of the young man who died in the custody of SARS/Anti-Cultism Unit of the command.
But the CP pleaded for understanding and begged for time, adding that “It won’t be nice that a matter of such magnitude that has taken so long a time, would be handled shabbily in a way that wouldn’t produce the desired results or justice as the case may be as expected by the public”.
The CP promised to do his possible best to ensure the matter is handled in such a way that will restore public confidence in the force, adding that officers involved in the murder of Ikwunado will be taken to court before the end of the month.
