A High Court sitting in Delta State has sentenced the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, CP Echeng Echeng, and one Kingsley Umeh to prison over their refusal to comply with the order of the court to release a kidnapped child to his parents.
In suit No: HCO/44/2021 filed before Hon. Justice C.O Emifoniye of Delta State High Court, the plaintiff, 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.
Justice C.O Emifoniye had on Wednesday ordered the Inspector General of Police to arrest the Anambra State CP and Inspector Umeh and transport them from Anambra State to the Kwale Prisons, Delta State within one week.
But the Police Public Relations Officer of the Anambra state command, DSP Toochukwu Ikenga in a statement on Saturday said the command is not aware of any such order.
He said: “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.”
According to the statement, the Command is constrained to make further comments.
(thisnigeria)
