Contrary to an online publication that a Delta State High Court has ordered the Anambra State Police Commissioner, CP Echeng Eworo Echeng and one Inspector Kingsley Umeh to be remanded in prison custody over an alleged refusal to release a kidnapped child to its parents, the Anambra State Police Command has debunked such malicious publication, saying that it is not aware of such court order.
The press release from the Police Public Relations Officer of the Anambra command of the Nigeria Police, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu Anthony, on the development reads; ” The Anambra State Police Command wishes to state emphatically that the Command is not aware and is yet to receive any order committing the Commissioner of Police Anambra State Command to a Correctional Center.
Therefore, the Command is constrained to make further comments please. “
Meanwhile the alleged erroneous online publication reads, ” A Delta State High Court has sentenced the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Echeng, Echeng and Kingsley Umeh to prison over refusal to comply with the order of the court to release a Kidnapped child to his parents.
In a suit No : HCO/44/2021 filed before Hon. Justice C.O Emifoniye of Delta State High Court, the plentif, Pastor Henry Osah had urged the court to order the Anambra State Police Command to free his kidnapped child who was found in an orphanage home in Anambra State.
Delivering the judgment on Wednesday, December, 2022, Justice C.O Emifoniye ordered the Inspector General Of Police to arrest the Anambra State Commissioner of Police and Inspector Kingsley Umeh and transport them from Anambra State to the Kwale Prisons, Delta State within one week. “
