Maduako Igbokwe l Wednesday, April 29, 2020
ONITSHA, Anambra – The family of Udeh Orokpo of Efugo Otukpa, Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State has called on the Inspector General of Police IGP Mohammed Adamu to use his good office to order the Anambra state police command to release their son ASP Akor Udeh dead or alive.
ASP was allegedly killed in a communal clash in Odekpe community in Anambra State on April 23 2020.
In a statement signed by Simon Patrick Akor for the family and made available to our reporter on Wednesday in Awka Anambra state capital,the family called on the Inspector General of police and the Anambra State Police Command to tell them the whereabout of their brother, father and husband, ASP Akor Udeh.
According to him, ASP Akor is a serving officer at Mopol 29 Anambra State, and has not been in contact with his family since April 23, 2020. He said report reaching the family indicates that Akor went with other colleagues to quell a communal clash in Odekpe community in Anambra State on April 23 and four persons were reportedly killed in a bloody clash that ensued between Odekpe and Alla community in Anambra West Local Government Area of the State over a boundary dispute.
He stated that report reaching them, has it that the officers were ambushed and kidnapped by youths from the community,while some of them were later released, Udeh was not that fortunate to be among the released ones.
He also disclosed that a strange person used ASP Udeh’s number and called his younger brother, Mr Simon Patrick Akor that ASP Udeh has been killed and his body has been burried in a shallow grave in one of the communities.
According to him, the caller said that he would throw away the phone and the SIM card after the call so that it would not be used to trace him, and since then , the number has been off.
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He said that he has made several efforts to the Anambra police command to know the true situation of things but they have been resorting to hide and seek tactics.
“The State PPRO is not answering my calls while the DPRO keep saying “they will get back to the family” .
“We therefore call on the Inspector General of Police to please urgently come clean and tell us the fate of our brother. If Officer Akor Udeh is still alive, we call on the IGP to help facilitate his release to reunite him with his family as his wife was just delivered of a baby boy on April 26, 2020 in his absence.
“If indeed, he has been killed, the least we demand from the police authority whom he served diligently for many years is to help us secure his corpse for the family to give him a befitting burial. The mental torture and psychological trauma the family has gone through in the last few days is unbearable” he said .
In his reaction, the spokesperson of Anambra state police command,SP Haruna Mohammed told our reporter that ASP Udeh was among officers deployed to maintain peace in Odekpe on last thursday following Communal clash between the two warring factions.
According to him, since then, the officer has been missing and efforts are ongoing by the command to locate his where about.
