Policeman beaten to pulp by Gov Rochas Okorocha’s ADC

Reports have emerged suggesting that the Aide-de-Camp to the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, Mr. Omo Gabriel, along with two other police officers on Saturday, allegedly beat up a policeman attached to the state government house for his delay in opening the gate for the governor’s convoy, leaving him unconscious.
The mobile policeman, Corporal Itere Ewedor, was said to have been on duty in his place of assignment around noon, when Okorocha returned from the birthday party of his wife on the same day.
A friend to the assaulted officer, Mr. David Edhie, confirmed the story to journalists, as the victim was said to be resting at the time.

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According to Edhie, “When the governor’s convoy got to the gate, the men of the civil defence corps and members of the Imo orientation corps, who were supposed to open the gate, were not around. So, there was a delay. Then my friend went to open the gate. “When the convoy drove in, the ADC and some other police officers came down and asked him why he delayed. They wanted to collect his gun, but he refused. So, they started beating him.

 They beat him until he became unconscious, with bruises all over his face and parts of his body.” He further revealed that the ADC took Ewedor, in his unconscious state, to Shell Camp Police Station and requested that he be detained. In his words, “The police officers at the station refused. They said they could not detain someone that was dying. Then Gabriel made arrangements for Ewedor to be taken to the Federal Medical Centre Owerri, where he was admitted. After sometime, he regained consciousness.” Ewedor was eventually discharged from the hospital around 5pm on Saturday, allegedly by Gabriel, because journalists were trooping to the hospital to confirm the sotry. Meanwhile, the state Commissioner for Information and Senior Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Mr. Chinedu Offor, denied the report, saying that nothing of such happened.

When contacted, Offor denied the incident, saying , “The ADC to Governor Okorocha is a true professional, there is no way he could have descended so low to physically assault somebody. In order not to scare people away, we use men of the civil defence corps at the gate. We don’t use policemen at the gates of the government house. “So, if anybody says a policeman was beaten up for refusing to open the gate, it is false. I was at the government house around 12:30am. Such a thing never happened.”

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