Police in Rivers have debunked claims that the Inspector General of Police and Commissioner of Police did not have prior knowledge of police assignment at the residence of a former acting managing director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Joy Nunieh.
Rivers police spokesman Nnamdi Omoni said in a statement on Friday that the policemen were on official duty.
He said the officers who barricaded Nunieh’s house in Port Harcourt on Thursday, a day she was billed to testify before an ad-hoc committee of the House of Representatives investigating financial mismanagement in NDDC, came from the IGP Monitoring Unit in Abuja.
“Ordinarily, such a phantom report should have been ignored but due to the potential danger inherent in keeping silent, the Command is minded to react and state the true position,” the spokesman said.
“The officers who were at the residence of the former Ag. MD Joi Nunieh were from the IGP Monitoring Team in Abuja and were here on official assignment.
“Before they proceeded to her residence, they observed due protocols and requisite standard operating procedures, including going through the processes of arriving themselves at the Headquarters with their Investigation Activities duly signed and approved by the Commissioner of Police, CP Joseph G Mukan.
“They went to her residence with Mobile Policemen, suggesting of course that they were there on official duty and not illegal duty as speculated. The reference indicating that the officers were there without the directive of the CP nor the IGP is preposterous and most unfortunate, hence should be discountenanced and disregarded.”
