by By Elijah Ugani – Calabar
The Chairman of the Association of Cross River Online Journalists ACROJ, and Journalist with Premium Times, Comrade Edem Darlington has petitioned the state Commissioner of Police requesting for the release of his late father’s phone that was taken by Insp. Ibe Ihezuo during a criminal invasion of his late father’s residence.
In the petition sighted by TheLumineNews, Mr. Edem held that “sometimes last month, I got a distress call from my family members that men of the Anti cultism/kidnapping unit of your command has invaded our family house in Bayside community, particularly, No 11 Tete street, Calabar south and went away with my father mobile phone.
“My late father was a renowned musical icon and highlife maestros who passed on last year.
“Since the musical copyright society of Nigeria was processing the payment of his royalties, I asked that his Sim card be kept intact in the phone so that we can get bank alert.
“Owing to the communal clash in Bayside community, the said Insp. Ibe Ihezuo, led a detachment of police officers to the area, in the thick of the night, without any prior notice, invaded my late father house to carry a search, within which he was reported to have taken the phone.
“When I visited the cultural center station, he agreed picking the phone but asked I bring someone who will identify the phone. While I returned with the young boy who argued with him that night while trying to pick the phone he asked that I get my late father to identify the phone.
“When I reported the matter to his commander, he said he had returned the phone to zone 6.
“The commissioner of police must act and ensure bad elements like Insp. Ibe Ihezuo is fished out and punished accordingly to serve as deterrent to other bad elements in the police system”
Comrade Darlington used the opportunity to call on the Commissioner of police to use his good office to investigate and insure that his late father’s phone is returned to him and if found guilty, the said inspector should be adequately dealt with.
