By Kamsi Anayo
The Anambra State Police Command says it is not aware of any court order committing the Commissioner of Police, Echenge Ewa Echenge to prison.
A statement on Saturday signed by the Command Spokesman, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, said that it had yet to receive any order committing the Commissioner of police to a Correctional Centre.
“We wish 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,” he said.
A viral social media report had said that a Delta State High Court had sentenced the Anambra commissioner of police 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 plentiff, 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.”
