A UNIBEN LECTURER HAS PETITIONED THE IG REGARDING ALLEGED UNLAWFUL DETENTION.

Ishaq Osagie-Eweka, a lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Benin’s Faculty of Life Sciences, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, to investigate his unlawful arrest and detention by the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Dankwara.

He has also given the state Commissioner of Police 48 hours to explain why he was arrested and paraded in front of the public like a common criminal.
In a petition titled “The unseeming behavior, abuse, and wrong use of office by CP Mohammed Dankwara of Edo State Police Command and the unlawful and unconstitutional arrest,” Osagie-Eweka stated this through his counsel, B. A Iluobe.

He addressed the petition to the Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commissioner, and made it available to Benin City journalists.
According to Iluobe, his client was invited by a friend, Osazuwa Osakpolor, to assist them in taking a cursory look at some documents for transmission to the state Commissioner of Police.
The counsel stated that the documents included a letter addressed to the CP seeking approval for lawful gathering, a copy of their organization’s Corporate Affairs Commission registration document, a copy of their organization’s constitution, and others for the CP’s attention.
He stated that his client was arrested, taken to his home, which was searched, and then paraded in front of the media.

He also claimed that the action violated his client’s fundamental human rights.
“If no element linking our client and others to criminality was recovered from our client’s residence, what is the rationale for his arrest, unlawful detention, parade in front of the press, and subsequent charge in a law court?” he asked.
The petitioner(s) and the offence(s) committed should be revealed to Nigerians by CP Mohammed Adamu Dankwara of the Edo Police Command.
“The CP should reveal to Nigerians the reason(s) for the despicable and unprofessional conduct that has defamed the character of our client and the violation of his fundamental Human Rights as a Nigerian.

“By this petition, the Nigerian Police Force is given 48 hours from the date of receipt of this petition to address the abusive and unprofessional conducts of CP Mohammed Adamu Dankwara on the person of our client or face legal action,” he said.