Abba/Ukpo land dispute: Anambra concerned citizen tackles police chief

 

AWKA, Nigeria – An Anambra state concerned citizen  Emmanuel O. Azowue, has accused a Chief Superintendent of Police, Dr. Joseph Nwadike, of bias in handling the Abba/Ukpo land tussle.

According to him, Nwadike is a police  lawyer  and founder of a Church,  played a prominent  role in truncating the demand for justice by a victim. Azowue who was reacting to an earlier interview allegedly granted by Nwadike said Nwadike lied to the public about what happened.

Azowue said that he was surprised at the level of half-truth being promoted as the whole truth on the activities and dealings of personnel of the Nigerian Police by Joseph Nwadike

He said “I was surprised at his level of half-truth being promoted as the whole truth on the activities and dealings of personnel of the Nigerian Police by one of their own..

“The interview granted by a senior police personnel, Dr. Joseph Nwadike, a Chief Superintendent of Police, a lawyer and prosecutor working with the legal department of the Nigerian Police, and also a founder of a church, is untrue.

“I am making reference to just one particular case that has passed through his desk where he allowed or supported wittingly or otherwise for justice to be perverted

Continued, Azowue said, “Dr. Joseph Nwadike must be reminded that a case against one Chief Pius Nweke was brought before him as a prosecutor in the office of the Inspector General of Police which was sponsored by a money bag from Ukpo community.

“He gladly owned up to the latter’s request that he knows that he was pursuing a course of justice but advised the latter to yield to the unholy and irrational demands of the former as a means of achieving peace in the matter.

“Yet, he claimed to be an objective prosecutor of the Nigeria Police Force and a man of God when his actions and deeds clearly suggest otherwise.

“Maybe, Dr. Joseph Nwadike may need to be reminded that when the case of Chief Pius Nweke came to his desk which was on land dispute between Ukpo and Chief Pius Nweke’s community (Abba), he advised Chief Pius Nweke to close his eyes and go to sleep while allowing his opponent to take possession of the ancestral land of Chief Pius Nweke’s community.

“He had further advised Chief Pius Nweke to discontinue as the surest way of achieving lasting peace and enabling Ukpo to take possession of a land that is still under dispute before the court, thereby suggesting that justice cannot be gotten through the Nigeria Police Force and the courts in the land.

“What Dr. Joseph Nwadike is suggesting is that there are people who are untouchable and above the law, and who must be appeased even when what they are doing is wrong, and should be treated as demi-gods in order to have their inordinate desires to be granted at all cost.

“Dr. Joseph Nwadike cannot continue to deceive Nigerians that he is an Evangelist of the gospel of Christ who always acts in the course of justice.

Azowue, added, ” He cannot also claim not to be aware that the trumped up case of illegal possession of firearm against Chief Pius Nweke was used as a cover up against the latter as a means to intimidate him from continually standing against the quest to silence the people of Abba community and to freely take over the possession of the ancestral land of the people of Abba community.

“And until men like Dr. Joseph Nwadike are thrown out from the Nigeria Police formation, achieving sanity in the system will be almost impossible. Until men like Dr. Joseph Nwadike are exposed, achieving justice through the Nigeria Police will remain a herculean task”.