Nigeria police steals detainee’s cell phone in custody as victim cries for help
An Indigene of Akwa Ibom State Mr Ukeme Okon Uko enjoins Human Rights Advocates as well as other relevant authorities to plead with the Nigeria Police Force, Abak Police Division to return his Cell Phone if the Police is still his friend.
Mr Ukeme Okon Uko made this known to newsmen that he was arrested in the early hours of Thursday February 25, 2021 on the order of his business partner Mr Sunday Timothy on grounds of misconception in service delivery and detained for 5 days. Mr Uko said he afterall regained his freedom on Monday March 1, 2021 when the Police told him that the Itel Smart Phone which he had registered at the counter prior to his detention in her facility has been stolen.
Lamentably, the phone theft victim disclosed that what surprises him is how his phone in the Police Custody would have grown wings and flown if not stolen by members of the Nigeria Police Force, Abak Division who according to the Nigerian Constitution are saddle with the responsibility of protecting the properties of Nigerians, not to talk of a detainee’s property under their watch while he was locked up for 5 days and fed just once, thinking he will die of hunger and no one would come asking for the phone.
Mr Uko who Is currently wearing a very sad look has narrated how these black-clothed criminals cum security agents have rendered him depressed and hopeless by stealing his phone thereby disconnecting him from his family, friends and business clients while they possibly think he would commit suicide sooner or later like other depressed Nigerians have done rather than lavish bullets on him as an addendum to the #EndSars SAGA.
Although the victim has been directed to fictionalize the Police brutality episode with stringent instructions never to make it public, he deems it safety-wise not to play the script of Inspector Kofi, Mfreke and company lest that would have only shortlisted him for the journey of skeletons who neither know when they leave nor when they return. The Digger Newspaper also gathered that Mr Ukeme Okon Uko was forced to pay the sum of ₦12,000 as bail to regain his freedom even when his plier-fingered detainers had stolen his cell phone already and also leaving a question unattempted, “Is bail actually free?
Hear Him:
“I was arrested on the 25th day of February 2021 and was released on the 1st of March 2021 by the Nigeria Police Force. I was arrested on grounds of business failure on the order of my business partner by name Mr Sunday Timothy. A business that we have done together successfully for over 5 years, you know in business, failure is possible. The sum of ₦50,000 was involved and the Police asked that i refund the money to him which i promised to refund.
“The problem is that when I got to the Police, I recorded all my properties before I got into the cell but when I was released I did not see some of my properties like my phone. They stole my phone. Even in the Police Station! Abak Divisional Police Station! The Police Officers involved are pleading with me not to inform the DPO. They have insisted that the DPO must not have knowledge about it. My greatest worries are my SIM CARDS especially now that SIM CARDS are no longer registered or sold.”
This reporter is confused if members of the Nigeria Police Force are now recruited, trained commissioned and paid to steal and brutalize Nigerians rather than protect their lives and properties. This reporter is made to believe that the off-kilter photograph of a generating set chained up in a Police Station which circulated radically across several media platforms was not a Photoshop but the bitter truth. Does it actually mean that job prescriptions for Men of the Nigeria Police Force have now being criminalized? This and many more have elbowed in for further investigation.
