Barrister Olukoya Ogungbeje, lawyer to billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, has petitioned the Police Service Commission, alleging that officers of the Inspector General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team have extorted over N50 million and other valuables from his client.
The lawyer also alleged that police officers have sexually molesting Evans’ girlfriend, Amaka Offor in the petition which was also copied the National Assembly, the Inspector General of Police, the National Human Rights Commission, and Amnesty International.
In the petition captioned, ‘The Evans Case and Saga: Brazen Extortion, Corruption, Gross Misconduct, Indiscipline, Sexual Molestation and Human Rights Violation Against the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team Police Officers,” which was submitted last Friday, the lawyer also accused the policemen of collecting the money and the valuables from his client during the three months he was detained before his arraignment in court.
“For the avoidance of doubt, it is our secured brief that in the course of investigating our client while being detained in the custody of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) on the allegation of kidnapping, the following under-listed items were forcefully and corruptly extorted from our client.
- The sum of N50, 000,000 (Fifty Million Naira) cash.
- Another sum of N5,000,000 (Five Million Naira) sent by our client’s wife as pressured by the above policemen.
- Twenty-five (25) Mack Trucks forcefully taken but not listed as exhibits in the ongoing criminal trial of our client.
- Brigade wristwatch worth One Hundred and Seventeen (117) Thousand U.S Dollars.
- Pendant cross worth Seventy (70) Thousand U.S Dollars.
- Necklace worth Twenty-Five (25) Thousand U.S Dollars.
- Virtu Phone worth Thirty (30) Thousand U.S Dollars.
- Virtu Signature Phone worth Seventeen (17) Thousand U.S Dollars.
- Ten (10) Thousand U.S Dollars cash extorted by ASP Phillip Rieninwa.
- Five (5) Pieces of Saphono Rucci Diamond Rings worth One Hundred (100) Thousand U.S Dollars.
- Lexus 470 Jeep.
- Grand Cherokee Jeep.
- L 400 Mitsubishi Bus.
- Toyota Highlander (Gold Colour).
- Eighty-Five (85) Inches Samsung Television set worth 6.5 Million Naira amongst others.
“Our client also confided in us that one (Amaka Offor) his girlfriend was sexually molested and abused by the above policemen of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT),” the Ogungbeje said while appealing to the Police Service Commission to conduct an investigation into the claims in contained in the petition.
“Sir, you would agree with us that these allegations are too weighty to be ignored by any right-thinking Nigerian.
“There is no gainsaying the fact that it calls for prompt investigation, inquiry and appropriate sanctions. We are using this medium as our own way of galvanizing institutional sanity, cleansing and reform in the Nigeria Police Force as an institution.
“As we speak, the brother in law and other relations of our client are still being detained and tortured by the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) without being arraigned before a Court of law,” the petition added.
The Police is yet to react to the allegations as at the time of filing in this story.