Merchant Navy Boss Petitions Inspector General

The Divisional Police Officer [DPO],Asokoro Police Station, Mr Nnanna Amah, is in the news one more time. This time, he is being alleged to be involved in the undue harassment of the leader of the Nigerian Merchant Navy, Comrade Allen B. Edema, who has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, alleging attempts to take his life, by the DPO.
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In the petition dated December 9, 2013, a copy of which was sent to this reporter, Edema also accused a Deputy Director in the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation,[Lagos Laison Office], Mrs Yemisi Kefas,of working in alongside Mr. Amah against him. Edema raised the issue of total abuse of power by both persons, in his petition.
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”I am compelled to write this petition to respectfully bring to your attention the repeated abuse of police powers by the DPO Asokoro Police Station, CSP Nnanna Amah, and other officers acting at the instigation of Mrs Yemisi Kefas, a Deputy Director in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Lagos Liaison Office”, he said.
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He added that, “In the last one month , members of my family, my officers and I have been subjected to repeated harassment by the DPO and some officers under him. Twice in one month, the DPO has used officers in and outside his Division to invade my residence, brutally assaulted me and members of my family, and in one occasion inflicted grievous bodily harm and injuries on two of my sons and officers whom they came across in the cause of invading my residence”.
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He alleged that the grouse of the duo against him, is in their attempts to subdue him and criminalize the organization he heads.
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“May I quickly inform you sir, that the activities of the DPO Asokoro Police Division, Mr. Nnanna Amah (CSP) are motivated, instigated and sponsored by Mrs. Yemisi Kefas.
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“These renewed and unrelenting acts of instigated abuse of police powers, harassment, arrests and detention are in continuation of a longstanding plot by Mrs Kefas in her sworn determination to, by all means, frustrate and subdue me, criminalize the Nigerian Merchant Navy and undermine its establishment as a maritime safety and security organization”, Edema posited.
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He alleged further, that: “I have, in my personal capacity and in my official capacity as the Commandant of the Nigerian Merchant Navy, gone to court several times against Mrs. Kefas and she has continued to disobey court orders declaring as illegal and unconstitutional, and ordering her to stop her malicious and vindictive actions against me and the Nigerian Merchant Navy.
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”She has also refused to obey court orders to release my personal property and the property of the Nigerian Merchant Navy which she used some police officers and officers of the Nigerian Navy to illegally confiscate during her previous sponsored invasions of my residence and the offices of the Nigerian Merchant Navy since 2008.
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”She has made several kidnap and murder attempts on my life. I have lost count of how many times I and other officers of the Nigerian Merchant Navy have been arrested, detained, brutalised and charged to court over frivolous allegations framed by police officers at the instigation of Mrs. Kefas.
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”I will itemize and describe just a few of these acts of intimidation and other lawless activities of Mrs Kefas and some police officers who have decided to allow themselves to be used to target innocent and law abiding people pursuing the legitimate objective of seeing through the ongoing Senate consideration of the official establishment of the Nigerian Merchant Navy to contribute to combating crime on our water ways and guaranteeing maritime safety and security in Nigeria”.