Akwa Ibom: Ex-Dig, Commissioner Under Watch

Akwa Ibom: Ex-Dig, Commissioner Under Watch

RECENTLY retired Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) from Akwa Ibom State, and the state Commissioner for Urban Development, Emmanuel Enoidem, are currently under security watch by Abuja.

The ex-police chief is being accused by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) of using policemen to favour the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Etim Ekpo axis of the state where a retired Chief Superintendent of Police, Ikpe Johnson Udoka, is also the Council Chairman.

The said ex-DIG who is suspected by the opposition to be working for the commissioner from the area, is alleged to be clamping down on perceived supporters of ACN. Last Saturday, he allegedly bundled the driver of Uduakobong Okpo, an ACN candidate, into his car, and arrested others after beating and stripping them naked, and dumped them in a police station opposite his Okpo was allegedly whisked into a waiting vehicle of Enoidem in what a bystander described as “a kidnap operation”.

An eye-witness account has it that the commissioner was almost lynched until Okpo came out from the vehicle.

Meanwhile, an impeccable security source told AkanimoReports that some security agents are keeping watch on ''some persons'' in the state given the hostile relations between the ACN and the PDP.

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