Tina Amanda
A man known as Francis Gideon has expressed shock and disappointment over the silence of Commissioner of Police Rivers State, CP Effiong Okon, on the alleged burglary of his shop by a female Assistant Superintendant of Police serving at Agip Police Station, Mgbuoshimini (ASP) Juliet Obi since 28 October 2022.
In an interview with our correspondent, Gideon narrated that the said Police officer ASP Juliet Obi broke into his shop located at 5 Odumini street Mgbuoshimini, Obio Akpor local government area, and destroyed his goods without him committing any offence.
“The shop in question, I do not owe rent, and I do not know if the shop is in contention with my landlady and her stepmother because the landlord married many wives, and my landlady is just a young secondary school girl who uses the shop rent which is the property bequeathed to her to pay her school fees.
“Morning of 28 October 2022, I was shocked when ASP Juliet Obi broke into my shop, threw my property outside, damaged my goods and said I should go anywhere I like, that nothing will happen.
“I called my landlady to inform her what her stepmother did; she came immediately and cried out for help, she ran into the Community, but nobody helped her.
“So I went to the Police station at Agip Road, Mgbuoshimini and made an entry on the same 28 October; they said they would call me; to date, nobody has called me on the matter.
“I wrote a petition to the Commissioner of Police on the same 28 October, but nobody called me; it means that what the Officer said is true that nothing will happen because she is a Police Officer.
“That means a Police Officer can wake up in the morning and carry a knife and kill somebody, and nothing will happen.
“A Police Officer cannot wake up and break into somebody’s house and say nothing will happen. For the past two weeks, I have not heard anything from the Polic, I am suffering, I want people to intervene and call the Commissioner of Police to look into the case”.
He, however, demanded Justice while urging the Commissioner of Police to take up the matter for Justice to prevail.
Our correspondent also sighted a letter written by a Human Rights Group, Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign, on behalf of the victim Francis Gideon, addressed to the Commissioner of Police, dated 28 October 2022 and stamped by the Office of the Commissioner of Police the same date as while as a video showing the said female Police Officer bringing out property believed to belong to the victim Gideon.
