A resident of Mile 1 Diobu, in Port Harcourt Local Government Area of Rivers State, Mrs Sunday Ndipmong, has raised alarm over the sudden disappearance of her 20-year old son, Victor Sunday, from custody at Mile 1 Police Division, hours after he was arrested on Saturday, December 23, 2023.
In an interview with our correspondent, Mrs Ndipmong narrated that the owner of the shop where her son is a trainee accused him (her son) of stealing his money.
When her son told her about it, she said, she took him to the shop owner’s place but met him absent. She added that while still in the man’s house, he brought in the Police from Mile 1 Police Division, who arrested her son and took him to the station.
According to her, the Police refused her following them to the station.
Mrs Ndipmong said that hours after her son was arrested, she received a call from a Police officer, informing her that they had arrested her daughter and taken her to Mile 1 Police station.
She noted that on getting to the Police station they released her daughter and forced her to write a statement that her son escaped from Police station after writing statement.
Mrs Ndipmong expressed surprise that the IPO had been “disturbing her to produce her son whom she claimed she had not seen since his arrest by the Police.
She however pleaded with the public to come to her aid.
Meanwhile, chairman of the Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign, Ik Alexander, has faulted the IPO for intimidating and shifting responsibility of providing the suspect whom he claimed escaped from Police custody.
Alexander maintained it behooves on the Police to protect every suspect in their custody, while insisting the Investigating Police Officer should produce the suspect rather than shifting his responsibility to the mother of the suspect.
