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Saturday, 28 March 2015
Okorocha’s aide arrested for stockpiling arms
The Imo State Police Command has arrested a
Senior Special Assistant to Governor Rochas
Okorocha, Barrister Okechukwu Okorocha, for
illegally being in possession of arms.
In a meeting with journalists at the Police
headquarters in Owerri on Friday, the Police
Public Relations Officer, Deputy Superintendent
of Police, Andrew Enwerem, said that Okorocha
was arrested after operatives from the State
Criminal Investigation Department, acting on a
tip-off that some top government functionaries
were stockpiling arms with the intention to
disrupt the general elections in Imo State,
conducted a cordon-and-search operation at his
residence in the early hours of Friday and
recovered three pump action automatic rifles
with 24 live cartridges and a Kenwood walkie-
talkie.
The police spokesman noted that Okorocha had
acted contrary to an instruction from the police to
all residents, particularly members of the State
Vigilante Service, to surrender all the arms and
other dangerous weapons in their possession
before the general elections.
“We have been announcing that the vigilante will
not be part of the security beef up at the polling
centres during the elections. As a result, we have
been warning them to return the prohibited
firearms in their possession to Divisional Police
Officers nearest to them,” Enwerem said.
In a similar operation by the State CID in Owerri,
three automatic pump action rifles with 14 live
cartridges were found in the security post of
Ebuada Housing Estate in the city. In the process
of recovering the weapons, Kelechi Onuoha,
Chigozie Uzowuru, Osita Obiako and Linus Aka
were also arrested.
In all, six automatic pump action rifles and 38 live
cartridges were recovered from all the suspects
who failed to conform to the directives of the
police to surrender their arms.
“It is believed that these arms were going to be
used to disrupt the coming elections. The arrested
suspects are currently in the custody of the police
and they are undergoing interrogation. This is
what we have done in preparation to ensure that
there is a peaceful, credible, free and fair
elections in Imo State,” the PPRO said.
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