At a time the Nigeria Police Force is facing serious calls for the disbandment of the Special Ant-Robbery Squad (SARS), the Inspector General Police's monitoring team and ZONE 5 Anti-Vice counterpart headed by an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Wale Ajibuwa have been accused of conniving with IGP Ibrahim Idris to free one Mr. Johnbul Owebaze, a murder suspect.
Owenaze, the notorious former Chairman of the defunct Iguomon Community Development Association (CDA), jumped bail on several occasions at the Edo State Criminal Investigation Department (CID) allegedly through the help of Richard Balogun, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and the head of anti-kidnapping unit, who is one of the major beneficiaries of the land exploit and criminal escapades of the (CDA) activities while it lasted.
A source revealed that instead of ASP Ajibuwa to hand over the suspect to men of the IRT, who had knowledge of the several cases and petitions against him, he allegedly collected the sum of N2.5million bribe from the suspect, hurriedly referred the case to the O/C legal unit of the state's CID for immediate prosecution with lesser charges, and dropped the charges of murder, robbery and kidnapping to ease his chances of receiving bail at his next day in court.
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