Akwa Ibom Demands Prosecution Of State Commissioner Of Police

The Akwa Ibom State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Uwemedimo Nwoko, has called for the prosecution of the State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal following the failure to keep a libel suspect in prison custody as ordered by the court.

Speaking with newsmen in his office on Wednesday, Nwoko called for the immediate resignation of the police commissioner who he said violated the ingredients of the law through his action.

“It is only the court that has the power to reverse itself or a higher court and nobody from an air conditioned comfort of his office can sit to undermine the decision of the court.

“He is interfering with a court order and I have no business to understand it. If there was anything wrong with the court order, he should have gone back to the court.”

The commissioner spoke in reference to the criminal charge leveled against a publisher, Leo Ekpenyong.

The Presiding Magistrate Winifred Umohandi had while adjourning the matter to March 23, 2020 ordered that the accused be made to undergo medical examination at a Government Hospital before being remanded in a Nigerian Correctional Service custody till the adjourned date.

Ekpenyong had been charged of “Giving false information and false statement to Government of Akwa Ibom state punishable under section 127 (1)(b) of the Criminal Code and causing extreme fear by making yourself an object of dread punishable under section 6(1)(a)(c) of the Akwa Ibom Internal Security Law,2009.”

The commissioner, however, accused the commissioner of police of causing the release of the accused before the adjourned date as prescribed by the court.

Nwoko said “a subject called Leo Ekpenyong raised a wild and unsubstantiated allegation, delebrately calculated to impune on the integrity of the Justices of the Tribunal and Governor Udom Emmanuel.

“We wrote to Leo Ekpenyong to substantiate his allegation or retract his statement with an apology or Face judicial sanctions which he failed to do.”

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