The Nigerian Police on Wednesday announced that one of its men, Sergeant Lucky Orji, has been dismissed for alleged participation in the murder of four UNIPORT students in Umuokiri-Aluu Community in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.
Force public relations officer who made this known said the officer was dismissed for ordering the mob to kill the suspected students based on the confessions of one of the arrested suspects.
Daily Post yesterday reported that one of the suspects, David Ugbaje, said he saw two policemen at the scene with one of them taking part in the beating of the victims.
Mba said police high authority probed the allegation and subsequently dismissed Orji, adding that he will be among the 13 persons that will be charged to court.
The spokesman admitted that the officer and another police officer allegedly stumbled upon the angry mob while beating the students, though they were not deployed there.
He said “The officers were not even sent to the scene, the sergeant in question went on his own, outside the code of conduct and professional ethics of the job. One was professional to ask the mob to stop but the other asked them to continue.”
Mba stressed police’s readiness to prosecute the officer and that the dismissal is in line with internal cleansing of bad eggs in its fold.
The image-maker continued; “It is something we must work together to review. Nigerians must not be quick to heap the blame on the police alone.”
“If you recruit an officer, the person carries the family value around. We need reorientation from the families and to the various worship centres. We must also look at the content our mass media is dishing out. We have to review all this,” he said.
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