By Our Correspondent
Hundreds of Koko residents yesterday staged a peaceful protest against the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, SP. Othuke Omenuwoma for allegedly engaging in incessant and unwarranted arrest of innocent persons and causing crisis in the community.
The protest commenced at about 9am. The protesters bearing placards with various inscription such as “Koko DPO must go,” “Stop illegal arrest,” “DPO is causing crisis in Koko,” and so on alleged that the DPO is shedding some persons who invaded the community with armed thugs sometimes ago and recommended for prosecution by the IGP while framing up others illegally and arresting them.
The Koko Community head, Pa. Richwell Ashenuwa, members of the elders council, youths and women trooped in numbers to the station in the protest to register their displeasure with the DPO insisting that he must be removed immediately.
Speaking to newsmen during the protest, Pa. Ashenuwa said what the DPO is doing is to shield and prevent the prosecution of those that waged war against the Koko town and visited mayhem on them, saying, “enough is enough.”
As at the time of filing this report many of the community indigenes are in Sapele prisons while others being targeted for arrest.
Efforts to reach the embattled DPO and State Police Public Relation Officers at Asaba proved abortive as their phones lines were not going through.
