Newly married popular Nigerian actor, Kalu
Ikeagwu has narrated his horrific experience in
the hands of men of the Nigerian Police Force
who picked him up on Monday, September 26.
According to Kalu, he was molested and arrested
by the men of the Nigeria Police over phone theft
and murder case.
Narrating the incident to Sahara weekly, Ikeagwu
said: “It all happened at about 3:40pm. My
daughter had just been dropped off at home by
her official school bus while I opened the gate for
her to come into the house, two men accosted
and ordered that I should follow them, then I
asked them who they are, instead they flashed
an identity card that only showed police written
on it without any name.
“Meanwhile, these two men were in plain clothes
and one of them had a black looped earring. At
this point, I said I was not going to follow them
since I do not know who they are. Suddenly a
white unmarked bus pulled–up in front of me and
four more men on plain clothes appeared from
the bus with one pointing an AK47 raffle at my
fore head.”
Not sure of who they were, the actor dialed his
wife’s phone number but they tried to forcefully
collect his phone from him but before could
succeed he was able to tell his wife that some
men were taking him away.
He said he was handcuffed him and to Pen-
Cinema police station Agege, Lagos state
passing Area G Police station, Ogba which is
closer to Kalu’s house. The actor claimed he
was not taken inside the police station when
they got there but was held outside the gate
until one man simply known as Born Great Benin
came out and was asking him questions The
actor said:
“I said to him I cannot answer any question from
you, unless I am taken into the police station
proper, it was this Born Great Benin that later
ordered them to take off the cuffs and asked
them to bundled me into the bus again and they
drove off to somewhere I later identified as area
F, police station, Ikeja.
“At this area F rather than take me into the
station’s main building, I was held at a room
when a certain gentle man identified as Deputy
Superintendent of Police (DSP) Philips came in
and showed me a telephone number and asked if
I knew the owner of the number.”
Ikeagwu identified the owner of the number as
his friend who had picked him up from the
airport a few days earlier. He said his friend told
him he swapped his old phone(iPhone) for a new
one(iPhone) at Computer Village, Ikeja and paid
an extra N37.000 in a legal business transaction
with a phone dealer.
“That was when they explained to me that since
I was the last person that dialed my friend’s
phone number it made me a soft target-hence
my arrest”.
When asked how his family fared and the impact
of the ordeal on his immediate family the actor
said: “First I will talk about my wife. She is still
in fear even till this moment she even stopped
me from jogging this morning. I thank God at the
way she handled the situation, the situation has
made me remember I have a gift in her.
“For me, it only reminded me of what a movie
director in Enugu told me, he said, he can forgive
a man that takes away his wife, or a man that
stabs him so long as he did not die, but can
never lift a finger to help a dying police man.
“In my life I have never had dealings with the
police but it’s unfortunate the way this episode
ended. Because their actions are an
embarrassment to Nigeria’s image.
“The first skill of every intelligent police officer is
his understanding of psychology but instead they
chose to do otherwise”.
Ikeagwu’s friend who owned the said phone was
out of town when he was arrested. He had since
returned to Lagos thus the release of the actor
while his friend has got employed the service of
a lawyer. They are working closely with the
Nigerian Police to apprehend the phone dealer.
Newly married popular Nigerian actor, Kalu
Ikeagwu has narrated his horrific experience in
the hands of men of the Nigerian Police Force
who picked him up on Monday, September 26.
According to Kalu, he was molested and arrested
by the men of the Nigeria Police over phone theft
and murder case.
Narrating the incident to Sahara weekly, Ikeagwu
said: “It all happened at about 3:40pm. My
daughter had just been dropped off at home by
her official school bus while I opened the gate for
her to come into the house, two men accosted
and ordered that I should follow them, then I
asked them who they are, instead they flashed
an identity card that only showed police written
on it without any name.
“Meanwhile, these two men were in plain clothes
and one of them had a black looped earring. At
this point, I said I was not going to follow them
since I do not know who they are. Suddenly a
white unmarked bus pulled–up in front of me and
four more men on plain clothes appeared from
the bus with one pointing an AK47 raffle at my
fore head.”
Not sure of who they were, the actor dialed his
wife’s phone number but they tried to forcefully
collect his phone from him but before could
succeed he was able to tell his wife that some
men were taking him away.
He said he was handcuffed him and to Pen-
Cinema police station Agege, Lagos state
passing Area G Police station, Ogba which is
closer to Kalu’s house. The actor claimed he
was not taken inside the police station when
they got there but was held outside the gate
until one man simply known as Born Great Benin
came out and was asking him questions The
actor said:
“I said to him I cannot answer any question from
you, unless I am taken into the police station
proper, it was this Born Great Benin that later
ordered them to take off the cuffs and asked
them to bundled me into the bus again and they
drove off to somewhere I later identified as area
F, police station, Ikeja.
“At this area F rather than take me into the
station’s main building, I was held at a room
when a certain gentle man identified as Deputy
Superintendent of Police (DSP) Philips came in
and showed me a telephone number and asked if
I knew the owner of the number.”
Ikeagwu identified the owner of the number as
his friend who had picked him up from the
airport a few days earlier. He said his friend told
him he swapped his old phone(iPhone) for a new
one(iPhone) at Computer Village, Ikeja and paid
an extra N37.000 in a legal business transaction
with a phone dealer.
“That was when they explained to me that since
I was the last person that dialed my friend’s
phone number it made me a soft target-hence
my arrest”.
When asked how his family fared and the impact
of the ordeal on his immediate family the actor
said: “First I will talk about my wife. She is still
in fear even till this moment she even stopped
me from jogging this morning. I thank God at the
way she handled the situation, the situation has
made me remember I have a gift in her.
“For me, it only reminded me of what a movie
director in Enugu told me, he said, he can forgive
a man that takes away his wife, or a man that
stabs him so long as he did not die, but can
never lift a finger to help a dying police man.
“In my life I have never had dealings with the
police but it’s unfortunate the way this episode
ended. Because their actions are an
embarrassment to Nigeria’s image.
“The first skill of every intelligent police officer is
his understanding of psychology but instead they
chose to do otherwise”.
Ikeagwu’s friend who owned the said phone was
out of town when he was arrested. He had since
returned to Lagos thus the release of the actor
while his friend has got employed the service of
a lawyer. They are working closely with the
Nigerian Police to apprehend the phone dealer.
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