By Adadareporters
The commissioner of police, Anambra State, CP Aderemi Adeoye, Friday, rewarded a police inspector with N250, 000 after she rejected bribe to aid a crime.
Our correspondent gathered that the incident occurred on Wednesday, 23rd August, 2023, when Ins Charity Oyor, who was on traffic duty in Main Market, Onitsha, saw a shuttle bus carrying six heavy bundles of stripped armoured cable suspected to have been stolen.
A statement by the state police public relations officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, said, “She stopped the driver and inquired about the consignment from the purported owner who rather than explain how he came to be in possession of the cable offered her bribe which she rejected.”
Ins Oyor then ‘put a call across to her DPO, Superintendent Joy Chidinma Ikpeama, who led police personnel to the scene and arrested the suspect’, Ikenga added.
It was gathered that when the consignment was impounded and taken to the station for investigations, the suspect again offered the sum of N500,000 to be allowed to go.
The statement continued, “This was rejected by the officers. The DPO promptly briefed the commissioner of police on the arrest and recovery. He then ordered State CID, Awka, to take over the case for investigations with a view to unravelling where the used cables came from.”
CP Adeoye, during the presentation, appreciated the DPO ‘for providing good leadership and Inspector Charity Oyor for her uprightness’. He urged all personnel in the command ‘to always uphold the ethics of the profession by refusing to be compromised in the discharge of their duties’.
Ins Oyor pledged to rededicate herself to her duties, and commended the commissioner of police for his generosity.
The deputy commissioner of police in-charge of administration, DCP Peter Umoru Ozigi, witnessed the presentation.
