A former police officer in Edo Shape, Inspector Edith Uduma, has threatened to shoot herself and her youngsters following her dismissal from the police power then she uncovered an alleged rape incident involving a workman.
She accused the circumstance police command of unjustly disregarding her, pronouncing the people had now not additionally heard her aspect of the tale.
Uduma’s dismissal got here then a viral video that she captured in October confirmed one Sergeant Abraham, every other officer, in a compromising place with a 17-year-old woman on the police station within the South Ibie branch of Edo Shape.
The officer was once observable hurriedly dressed in his trousers and querying why Edith was once creating a video recording. The woman was once observable mendacity on a chair within the room during this.
It was once learnt from the police that each officials have been then pushed aside following an orderly room trial.
The Edo Shape Police Command, in a remark exempt in November by means of its Folk Members of the family Officer, Moses Yamu, alleged that Uduma conspired together with her husband, Inspector Ibrahim Mohammed, to extort N1m from Abraham to defend up the incident. When Abraham reportedly presented N45,000 in lieu, the video was once leaked on-line, the police claimed.
The command stated, “That, opposite to stories from positive quarters, the stated feminine police officer, AP/deny 228719 Insp. Edith Uduma, was once the Price Room Officer on October 7, 2024, the night time F/Incorrect. 504694 Sgt Abraham allegedly raped a feminine suspect within the station.
“The feminine officer, in lieu of reporting the incident to the Divisional Police Officer or the Incident Responsibility Officer because the case is also, for disciplinary movements to be initiated in opposition to the erring officer, took benefit of the condition to complement herself by means of calling her husband, AP Incorrect. 228652 Insp. Ibrahim Mohammed, whom she conspired with to unlawfully call for the sum of N1m from the sergeant to help him in concealing the subject.
“Following these events, an orderly room trial was initiated against all the officers, which led to the dismissal of Sgt. Abraham and Insp Edith Uduma.”
Uduma’s husband was once additionally demoted to the rank of Sergeant.
Then again, Uduma denied the allegations in an interview with PUNCH Metro on Saturday, insisting she by no means extorted cash and that she was once now not given an excellent listening to. She alleged that her dismissal was once orchestrated as a result of she lacked influential connections.
Uduma who threatened to shoot herself if she didn’t get justice stated, “What the Edo Command is saying is not what happened. They know I have no rank or support to fight back,” Uduma stated.
She additional noticeable that the Power Headquarters in Abuja was once nonetheless investigating the subject just for the Edo command to hurriedly push aside her.
“I want justice. My dismissal is unjust,” she stated tearfully.
She stated her husband who was once additionally sanctioned had deny connection to the subject.
“He (my husband) worn to deliver one thing for me to devour. He introduced meals that date to the station.
“If Nigerians refuse to listen to me – because my husband has been in detention, and they have been looking for me to arrest me, to charge me to court – if Nigeria refuses to listen to me, I will just poison all my children and myself. I will die. Because I’m just stranded like this,” she stated, noting she were in hiding and had now not observable her youngsters in a protracted date because of the incident.
She alleged that the DPO on the station precipitated her to invite Sergeant Ibrahim for the N1m for negotiation when the sergeant reportedly disappeared then the incident, noting that this was once to trap the suspect to turn up.
In line with her, she is shocked how the DPO and alternative officials allegedly grew to become the subject in opposition to her.
“If the police force can do this to a police officer, how much more to the innocent and civilians?”
The spokesperson for the Edo command, Moses Yamu, has now not replied to screams and a textual content message put throughout to him on Sunday.
PUNCH Metro amassed that the later Divisional Police Officer of the station on the date the incident happened, SP Lilian Osemwegie, has now retired.
A choice was once put throughout to a bunch stated to be hers however a girl who replied then a query from our respondent, stated, “Wrong number, wrong number.” PUNCH Metro can not right away check if the previous DPO was once the only at the name, however a police supply insisted it was once her quantity.
In a remark made to be had to our correspondent on Friday, a human rights team, Rush It Again Motion, petitioned the Inspector Common of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, over what it described because the unjust dismissal of the feminine police officer and aid in rank of her husband for reporting the alleged rape case.
The petition titled, “Petition For Review and Reinstatement, Unjust Dismissal From Nigeria Police Force” was once exempt by means of the TIB Abuja area and signed by means of the Federal Capital Teriitory Coordinator of the crowd, Robert Ande.
“We humbly publish this petition to hunt your intervention within the rude injustice perpetrated in opposition to Mrs Edith Uduma and her husband (Mohamed Ibrahim) with Power Incorrect.: AP/NO 228652 by means of the Edo Shape Police Command.
“Her dismissal from the Nigeria Police Force and the deduction of the rank of her husband from (Inspector to CPL) was unjust, and we request a thorough review of her case,” the petition learn partially.
“Instead of commending her actions, she was dismissed, and her husband, Inspector Ibrahim Muhammad, was arrested and detained,” the crowd added, including that the command’s motion was once in a position to “hindering investigations and protecting the perpetrator of the rape.”