The OC Anti-Vice, CSP Muhammad Abubakar, excesses will no longer be tolerated in Edo State as we must put an end to a reign of tyranny in Edo State Police Command.

CSP Muhammad Abubakar has become the overlord police boss and a deity in the Edo State Police Command spanning over fifteen years at the state police headquarters in Benin City. There are reports of the things him and his boys are known for, even as a former OC Anti cultism unit, is it the torture of detainees, obtaining of confessional statements from suspects under duress or illegal detentions without the notice of top management of the command?

As an overlord, he releases suspects in his custody at his pleasure without regard to human rights, however not without the suspect relatives paying huge ransoms for their wards freedom. This processes which negate the instructions of the underlisted laws:

1. Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA)
2. Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act (VAP).
3. Anti-Torture Act.

Just at the weekend, he detained Leftist Omobude Agho and three others over lingering issues at Ugbineh Community, a matter that is already before a competent court of jurisdiction, falesfully accusing them of jumping administrative bail which never happened but laughable and puerile coming from a supposed senior police officer whom we expect to have known better. That was though made nonsense in court by the defence lawyer, Barr. Olayiwola Afolabi (SAN).

He deliberately denied the four men bail from Friday, 16th August 2024 till Monday, 19th August 2024 (a period beyond 72 hours).
He became intentionally invasive and absent from duty, he avoided taking calls but responding to text messages. CSP Muhammad Abubakar committed himself to personal interest to override his dispassionate sense of judgement by conducting himself in most unprofessional manner in a matter he ought to be neutral as a supposed trained police officer. He turned himself into the investigator, prosecutor and the trial judge. His overall conduct was at total variance with the Nigeria Police Establishment Act as quoted below.

Section 353. Conduct of Police Officers Generally.

A police officer shall not conduct himself in such a manner as to bring his private interests into conflict, his public duties or in such manner as is likely to cause a suspicion in the mind of any reasonable person that he has-
(a) allowed his private interests to come into conflict with his public duties; or

(b) used his public position for his private advantage.
As enshrined in the Police Establishment Act.

Sunday 18th, August 2024, our executive members in company of a legal representative met with the CSP at the State Police Headquarters, since he has been avoiding every contact. The issue of granting them bail or charging them to court the following day being Monday, 19th August 2024 was raised, the deity of Edo State Police Command, ordered one of his overzealous lieutenants, officer Ella, to grant them bail, the OC, Anti-Vice, zoomed out of the command premises.

Only for his anointed officer, Mrs. Ella, who is regarded as boss lady, refusing to grant them bail, claiming that CSP Muhammad Abubakar gave the standing order, displaying his artificial authority again, and throwing the voice of reasoning into the winds. At that point we insisted they should be taken to court the following day without further delay.

On monday, 19th August 2024, members of EDOCSO gathered at the Benin High Court Complex in solidarity with the illegally arrested and detained victims, we waited until 11:00am without seeing the victims, only to be shockingly informed thereafter that the officers in charge hasn’t even resumed at all for the day in the Anti-Vice Department at the Police Headquarters. This brought about the anger that prompted the movement to bringing the evil to the attention of the Commissioner of Police, Edo State Command, CP Nemi Edwin-Iwo via a protest that saw the picketing of the state command.

The newly deployed CP, was shocked at the revelations made by EDOCSO, his prompt intervention indeed fast tracked the process of charging victims to vacation court swiftly.

It was established that CSP Muhammad Abubakar’s primary objective is to fulfill his part of the bargain by filing a motion ex parte to secure a remand order to keep them in prison custody pending whenever he is ready to file a formal charge(s) against and to use same window to get evidence to support various demonic allegations to perpetually keep them in prison custody as long as he pretends to be investigating a non existence communal war, a tactics deployed by old school dubious law enforcement agents that has led to the numerous cases of awaiting trials innocent victims in our prisons today. This is purely demonic and abuse of police power, a very shameful tale to say the least.

The court proceedings went on smoothly, overturning the highly funded evil conspiracy plans, Leftist Omobude Agho and six others were granted bail awaiting the proper case to be filed.

With this sponsored evil against outstanding patriots of Edo state and Nigeria, without conscience at all, it has now become a very terrible risk to still have characters like CSP Muhammed Abubakar smuggling his way back into our state command for whatever reason. We are calling on the new Commissioner of Police, CP Nemi Edwin-Iwo, to quickly reconsider the deity CSP, redeployment back to Edo state Police Command, though history has it that CSP Muhammad Abubakar is powerful in upturning deployment exercise from previous Commissioners of Police using his connections from above to intimidate and boastfully have his ways. It is on records that Whenever he is deployed out of the command, he has a magical way of surreptitiously working his way back, making it look like there is something he left in Edo State that he cannot do in his police employment elsewhere in the country. He thinks he can continue to perform his unprofessional police duties in the state like before, it is time to say enough is a enough.

Edo State is home to a very formidable human rights movement where Leftist Omobude Agho serves in its leadership hierarchy, such character is not one whose fundamental human rights CSP Muhammad Abubakar can disrespect or abuse for any personal monetary sponsorship without maximum resistance.

We will not close our eyes to some individuals who will use their public office to intimate and oppress our people, not to talk of the People’s General himself. This affliction must be cured now and never to come back a second time.

We demand as soon as possible the redeployment of CSP Muhammad Abubakar out of Edo State with immediate effect, we won’t allow him this time again to paint a bad image of Edo State and the new CP as our camera eyes are currently fixed on him and the personnel’s under him.

Leftist Aimuae-Osa Igbinomwanhia.
Public Relations Officer.
Edo Civil Society Organisations (EDOCSO).

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