Ex-NDDC MD: The Police Is In A Better Position To Protect Her- River Police Commissioner

The Commissioner of Police in Rivers State Joseph Mukan said the police are in a better position to protect the former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission Joy Nunieh.

Mr. Mukan  made this statement during a news briefing with news in Port Harcourt Friday while calling  governor Wike to handover Nunieh to the police because she is under investigation.

He further said that the policemen from the Inspector General of Police Monitoring Unit were endorsed by the Rivers State Police Command before proceeding to the residence of the ex-NDDC boss.

Wike had raced to Nunieh’s residence along with some of his security details on Thursday to rescue her from security operatives who claimed they had orders to arrest her.

The governor who fumed that the security operatives had no arrest warrant took Nunieh under protective custody in Government House, Port Harcourt.

The Command further said the exercise was legitimate and in tandem with the law, decrying the action of the governor as unfortunate.

“It is really unfortunate because under normal circumstance if His Excellency (Wike) is saying that he went to rescue her, he is supposed to turn her over to me because I am the Commissioner of Police on ground and I will be in a better position to take her than for him to take her to Government House.