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A group, Initiative For Social Rights Concerns And Advancement (ISRCA) AKA “No Justice, No Peace” today said the Delta State Police Command is not involved in the rescue of former Commissioner for Technical Education,Hon. Joan Onyemaechi from the hands of her abductors. ISRCA National Coordinator, Comrade(Amb) Derrick Oritsematosan Agberen made the assertion in a statement sent to Our Correspondent in Warri.
“From the gestures of the Delta State Police Command, it is obvious that the Police wasn’t involved in the rescuing process.”
It would be recalled that the former Commissioner was kidnapped in broad daylight with her security aide shot dead in Asaba going by a video clip that surfaced on the media space.
The group in the statement said the Police Command under the watch of CP Olufemi Abaniwonda should subject the video that surfaced on the internet to forensic video analysis review.
It stressed that the faces of the suspected kidnappers were not hidden.
According to the group,”From the voice note in the video clip by the recorder, they had initially suspected the kidnappers to be Police operatives, going by the way they handled the rifle.
“Also, it is so unsafe to have persons having such sophisticated weapons in the hands of civilians or whoever it may be. From the plots in the operation, it is obvious that they had carried out the attack by a classified information from an insider, hence the Delta Police Command should widen their scope of the investigation.”
The group which expressed joy on the safe return of Hon. Onyemaechi, expressed disappointment at the Governor Sheriff Oborevwori led Delta State Government knowing fully well, that a whopping sums, as ransom must have been paid in exchange for her freedom.
“These are some of the plight and challenges faced by the ordinary people, going by the insecurities threat in the State.
“What then happens to the ordinary Nigerians who have been in captivity for several weeks running into months and years and the only thing keeping them in captive is the failure/inability of their families to pay the ransom? Who then comes to their aid; Is it the government or the Police or their poor families who cannot afford good nutritional meals?
“Sadly enough, a lot of persons has(have) been killed, raped, even most men, forced to having anal sex on gunpoint, when unable to meet the ransom demanded. They’re left to their own fate while the State Government turns blind eyes this lingering issues.
“Despite suggestive measures given by experts and CSO’s, on the needs to establish her traditional outfits to engage the bushes and creeks to purge out these menace that have become a norm, the government is still not active, let alone being proactive to taking preventive measures. These challenges still strives.”
The group however appreciated the Senior Special Assistant On Civil Society Organisation And Non-Governmental Organisation, to the Delta State Governor, Comrade Victor Ojei, AKA Wong Box, on the efforts being made to engage the Hunters Security Outfits, to curb these excesses in the bushes and within just as he appeal that its process be fast tracked.
