Actor Kalu Ikeagwu releases statement on his arrest by the Nigerian Police
Yesterday,
news broke that actor Kalu Ikeagwu was arrested by the police following a
robbery and homicide case. He has released a statement stating what exactly
happened. Read that below
Just to clear the air, I have this to say. I was
literally abducted at gunpoint by earring wearing men purported to be policemen
(they were five) in an unmarked Hiace bus with civilian number plates and fake
identity cards. They first claimed to be working on an abduction Abuja case
which changed to a robbery case, all while in transit.
Even
on getting to the police station I was not allowed to go in to the premises but
was held outside . I repeatedly asked to go into the station where I'd feel
safer to ask whatever questions that were burning in my mind regarding my
traumatic experience. It did not happen. Instead they told me a phone used for
a kidnap was being sought for,later the story changed to robbery then back to
kidnap.
As I write this piece I
have not written any police statement in any police station which strikes me as
very odd. I'm still wondering why I was molested and kidnapped just because a
purported phone no was supposedly tracked to phone. Why would they have to
harass me when they already had details of the buyer and seller of the phone?
In a legitimate situation,the seller of the stolen phone should be the key
witness in this investigation, but in this case the police are till now very
reluctant to meet the seller.
I know there are
mysteries I need to unravel in this case and I will try to get answers to them.
It's so pathetic that one can get bad publicity from Nigerian media just
because they're so much in a hurry to copy that they forget the importance of
confirmation from all the parties involved. Publishing a story based solely on
a neighbour's account isn't true journalism, that's pure gossip and slander.
We need real facts from the media and we need protection from
the police and not molestation.
#enoughsaid #policebrutality #thuggeryinaction #nigerianmedia
#gossipistoxic #nigerianpothere
#enoughsaid #policebrutality #thuggeryinaction #nigerianmedia
#gossipistoxic #nigerianpothere
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