A resident of Owerri, Imo state capital, Chief Barry Nwigwe has alleged that his son, Ikemefuna Emmanuel Nwigwe, who was running errands for the family in the morning of February 8, 2025, was dehumanised by five armed men dressed in police uniform, who were manning a checkpoint around Akwakuma.
According to the distraught father, the armed police officers who threatened to kill his son had held him by balls to forcefully extort the sum of N80,000 from him.
He also disclosed that the policemen had handcuffed his son and driven him in their vehicle with Number plate IMO : KWE 645 SA to a Point of Sale (POS) location along MCC road where he was forced to withdraw the sum of N80, 000 from his Opay account, and that thereafter, they drove him to Orji flyover where they dropped him off and instructed him to run for his dear life and never look back.
He, therefore, called on the State Police Commissioner to intervene in the situation and bring the said officers to book.
The petition to the Imo state Commissioner of Police, Aboki Danjuma by Chief Nwigwe through his Solicitor Chief C. L Asika Ilobi, reads: “It is our instruction that on the 8th day of February, 2025, at about 8:00 am, our client’s son, Mr. Ikemefuna Emmanuel Nwigwe was running family errands as instructed by his father, when unknown persons numbering about five (5) and dressed in black outfit and brandishing dangerous weapons and heavily armed with AK47 accosted our client’s son, around Akwakuma roundabout, and forcibly dragged him into their vehicle, which was heavily tinted with registration number — IMO KWE 645 SA, and started torturing our client’s son, threatening that they will shoot him if he doesn’t transfer all the monies in his bank account to them.
“As our client’s son attempted to explain to them that he was only a student running family errands, they got infuriated and two of them held him by his balls and penis, and twisting and squeezing the same, thereby causing unbearable pain and trauma. In that ensuing drama, our client’s son admitted having about Eighty Thousand Naira (N80,000.00) in his Opay Account Number — 91380440124 Nwigwe Ikemefuna Emmanuel, pursuant to which they drove him in handcuffs to a POS location along MCC Road and ordered our client’s son to transfer the sum of Eighty Thousand Naira (N80,000.00) to a POS agent, who thereafter handed over the amount to them, after which they drove to Orji flyover and dropped off our client’s son with an instruction that he should run for his life without looking back.
“It was at the point of running away for his dear life that our client’s son looked at the vehicle plate number and crammed the number as — IMO KWE 645 SA.
Our client is a person disposed to the due process of the law, and has instructed us to petition your good office to investigate this act of illegality and unlawful extortion at gunpoint without any lawful justification so that whoever that may be implicated thereby, may be prosecuted and brought to book.”
