Over three weeks after the arrest and detention of their son, Abel Ebilene by the Nigeria Police Force, lawyers to his family have demanded his immediate release, saying he was arrested without any formal charge.
In a letter addressed to the Police Complaints Response Unit PCRU, and signed by ST Ben-Iwo from Deeds Chambers, the lawyers said “all application for our client to be granted bail has fallen on deaf ears, even when we have available, reliable sureties, willing and ready to take him on bail”.
Till date, we have not seen any legitimate reason for which our client has not been granted bail, even when the alleged offense of breach of trust and cheating is bailable.
“On behalf of our client, we had demanded severally to see any order on wit our client is detained, same has not been acceded by these officers”, they added.
The petitioners alleged that some policemen had moved Mr Ebilene’s car from Port Harcourt to Abuja without any warrant to so do.
“In order to take the Car, ASP Habib claimed that the car was seen in a crime scene in Abuja, this is a vehicle that has never been driven out of Rivers State since it was bought”.
According to the lawyers, the Nigeria Police seems to be encouraging impunity of its officers as the complaint response unit set up by previous dispensation to check such excesses and infamous actions of officers has been bastardized.
“Days after report and consistent follow-up on the ordeal of our client, the office obviously can’t do anything about it, maybe because of the seeming interest of high Police officers.
It leaves us worried of the neutrality of the leadership of the Nigeria Police Force in this matter. Does the office of the Inspector-General encourage such gross impunity by police officers? Are police officers not supposed to conduct themselves within the ambit of the law?
“Of what purpose is this public complaints response unit, when over 27 days of channelling our complaints via this medium it appears the office has done nothing while officers of the Nigeria Police Force continue to hold our client in detention without showing him any warrant or order granted to them to do so?
“Is it the practice that one station would act as if they are granting bail, whereas they had intimated another formation to come and re-arrest the same person on the same subject matter? Is this the way police officers operate?’, the petitioners queried.
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