Steve Uzoechi 
Stakeholders and Civil Society Organizations are calling for the arrest and possible prosecution of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ezinihitte Mbaise Division in Imo state, Eshiet Onuimo for his alleged complicity in the cover-up of a case of defilement of a minor.
This is also as the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has petitioned the Police Services Commission (PSC) demanding urgent disciplinary actions against the DPO for same reason and for allegedly shielding known felons with pending cases in the Police. In the petition signed by the Executive Director of the group, Mr. Okechukwu Nwanguma, RULAAC narrated that sometime in December 2023, a minor who was returning from a church program at Obibi village in Adakam Amumara was waylaid and gang raped by three men from Obibi. The case was reported at the Ezinihitte Mbaise Divisional Police Headquarters, by the Chief Security Officer Amumara, Okechukwu Ikenna Inyama. Rather than give justice to the poor girl, the DPO continued to dillydally and did not arrest the suspects till date.
The petition read in part: “It turned out that the suspects are young men working with one Chibuenyi Nwachukwu from the same Obibi village who is very close to the Traditional Ruler of Adakam, Eze O.B Nwokocha. “The Chief Security Officer informed us that Chibuenyi later approached the mother of the defiled girl and was offering her money to drop the case.”
