Questionable bail at Ogwashi-Uku Police station

On a daily basis the fraud going on at Ogwashi-Uku Police station in the name of bail calls for serious concerns by well meaning citizens of  South Local Govt Area of Delta State, the Inspector General of Police, Commissioner of Police Delta State and the Area Commander of Police in Ogwashi-Uku. The continuous extortion of […]

On a daily basis the fraud going on at Ogwashi-Uku Police station in the name of bail calls for serious concerns by well meaning citizens of  South Local Govt Area of Delta State, the Inspector General of Police, Commissioner of Police Delta State and the Area Commander of Police in Ogwashi-Uku.

The continuous extortion of money ranging from 50,000, 30,000, 20,000, 15,000, and 10,000 Naira from poor hapless citizens of Aniocha South all in the name of bail should be condemned by all law abiding citizens of Aniocha South local govt area of Delta State but what puzzles us the most is that Nigeria Bar Association Ogwashi-Uku and Aniocha South are not bothered about the violation of the fundamental human rights of the citizens.

We are beginning to believe that the police authorities are truly giving police officers target of how much money they should raise for them because these officers always claim that they were given targets by their bosses yet they campaign daily on the social media and electronic medias that the police is against corruption.

Another issue that puzzles us is that when one goes to police station to bail someone you are asked to buy Dettol, toilet rolls or drop money for these items. They also claim that money for biros and papers for writing statements are not provided for which made to resort to extortion of monies in the form of bail.

We call on the Federal Government to beam their searchlight on anti-corruption to stop these corrupt practices in police stations across the country and in particular Ogwashi-Uku police station because the corruption going on there stinks to high heavens.

Eziokwubundu Atuegwu, a social and political critic, wrote from Abuja