Anambra: Groups kick as boy dies in police custody

The Anambra State Police Stakeholders Partnership Forum, and the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre have shown serious concerns on the controversy surrounding the death of one Uchenna Okafor (male), who allegedly died in the custody of the Anambra State Criminal Investigation Department annex, Awkuzu, in December 2022.

The groups demanded that the Anambra police must come clean on the suspicious and controversial death of the teenager and tell the public what really transpired.

The death of Okafor at the police custody was made public by a social justice campaigner through his Twitter handle, @Ada_mummyya, on January 9.

The tweep alleged that Okafor was arrested for a case of ‘two fighting’ and taken to the police station on December 23, 2022.

It was reported that the parents of the deceased were asked to bring the sum of N150,000.00 to bail him, but six days after the arrest, when the parents of the deceased got to the station, and inquired about their son, they were informed that Okafor had died.

The Force Public Relations Officer, Nigeria Police Force, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, who reacted to the tweet, said he had asked the Anambra State Police spokesman, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, to look into the matter and revert to him.

Ikenga, who reacted to Adejobi’s tweet, said the state police command had started a probe into the “death of a suspect Uchenna Okafor, who died in detention”. Punch