Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA), on Sunday, said the fresh allegation of N47 million theft against a whistleblower, Nnamdi Emeh, in an alleged organ harvesting case involving men of the Anambra State Police Command is a mischievous ploy by the police to cover up the Augean stables of their corrupt and unethical officers.
HURIWA, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, said the fresh accusation brought against Emeh, a National Youths Service Corps member, after he exposed the extrajudicial killings and organ harvesting allegedly committed by officers of the Command showed there’s no political will on the side of the police to press for justice in the matter.
The group said the Command cannot be the accused and the judge in the matter. HURIWA therefore called on the Anambra State Government to set up a judicial commission of inquiry to clinically investigate the alleged organ harvesting allegations levelled against the police by the whistleblower.
On Friday, the Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, Echeng Echeng, said Emeh is in police custody, adding that his case is already before the Federal High Court.
The police commissioner accused the whistleblower of allegations of unlawful possession of firearms, money laundering, defamation of character, fraud and impersonation. He also accused the IT expert of hacking into one of Mr Chibuike Martins Ekwueme’s accounts, alleging that he...
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