PCRC writes NURTW to rise against Police extortion

Worried by the continued intimidation of innocent citizens in the state by some security agencies, the chairman of the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), Imo, Chima Chukwunyere has called on the leadership of National Unions of Roads Transport Workers (NURTW), Imo State chapter and other transport unions in the State to rise against such anormalise.

In a letter captioned; “The Continouse Defiling of Ethics of The Profession” dated 6th September 2024 and made available to newsmen in Owerri on Friday, and copied to Imo State Commissioner of Police, Director DSS and the Commander 34 Artillery Brigade Obinze, the PCRC chairman advised the chairman NURTW, Imo State chapter and all motorist to resist the action of some of the security agencies to avoid the extortion of innocent youths.

He said: “i wish to draw the attention of your office and other transport unions in the state to the continuous defilement of the ethics of their profession by the security agencies in the state”.

Chukwunyere reminded the body about the recent warnings by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to security agencies in the country against intimidation of fellow citizens by way of collecting and having access to their personal mobile phones.

He said that government perceived these actions of the security agencies as not only illegal but also a broad-day robbery using Federal Government uniforms.

He said: “this act is not only peculiar to the Police alone,other security agencies such as the Joint Task Force are also culprit”.

The PCRC chairman disclosed that his attention as the chairman of Imo Hoteliers Association was drawn recently by members complains by their guests about the treatment melted on them by security agencies in the state, a situation which made them loss their flight.

He said: “some of them even forcefully paid between N200,000 to N300,000 in order not to be tagged either IPOB, ESN members of 419 or Yahoo plus”.

PCRC vehemently condemned the way and idea of security agencies on patrol and roadblocks forces the youths to come down from vehicles and asking drivers to leave with their vehicles for them to extort them.

Chukwunyere insisted that in the case of a driver observing this criminal action, such driver should stop immediately and resist the security agencies and call the Police Emergency Security No: 08034773600, or PPRO 08148024755.