SaharaReporters reliably gathered that since his transfer, his lawyer and family have made concerted efforts at getting the police to charge him to court but all were to no avail.
The counsel and family of Nnamdi Emeh, the whistleblower currently in detention, has expressed heightened apprehension that the Anambra State Police Command has perfected some sinister plans to take his life.
SaharaReporters reported that Nnamdi was on April 2, 2023, transferred from the Force Headquarters Abuja to the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Awka, Anambra State.
His transfer to the state came despite public outcry as to why he would be transferred from the Force Headquarters Abuja to the Anambra State Command of the Nigeria Police, where most of its senior officers were named in the gory details of the atrocities happening at Awkuzu, SARS.
SaharaReporters reliably gathered that since his transfer, his lawyer and family have made concerted efforts at getting the police to charge him to court but all were to no avail.
"After several visits to the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the State CID, DCP Azara, the police reluctantly filed a charge at the Federal High Court Awka on the 11th day of April but have refused to produce Nnamdi in Court for arraignment more than two weeks after," a family member told SaharaReporters on Wednesday.
He noted that when the family visited him over the weekend, he informed them that the Commissioner of Police, CP Echeng Echeng had on two different occasions sent emissaries to him at odd hours requesting to see him in private but he declined.
"Nnamdi insisted that he cannot have any meeting with anyone at an odd hour in the absence of his lawyer.
"Following this disclosure, Nnamdi’s father, Prof JK Emeh and his lawyer, Justus Uche Ijeoma, Esq. decided to visit the CP in his office on Tuesday 25th April, 2023.
"However, after waiting at the CP’s office for more than one hour, the CP declined to see them, directing that they should channel their discussion through the DCP State CID who is currently on leave.
"They were taken aback that the same CP who is reaching out to see Nnamdi privately at odd hours is declining to meet with his father and lawyer."
Meanwhile, a police source told SaharaReporters that some of the officers heavily indicted in the media publications that were being investigated by the IGP’s investigative committee were being transferred to the State CID from Awkuzu SARS.
According to the source, Insp. Harrison Akama has been redeployed to the State Criminal Investigation Department from the notorious SARS (disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad). "This development poses grave danger to the life of Nnamdi as they are going to be seeing him every day."
SaharaReporters reported that the 26-year-old Nnamdi, a serving member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and an IT consultant to the Anambra state police command has been in detention since March 3, 2023.
He was first detained at the police force headquarters in Abuja from March 3, 2023 after he was arrested in Benin Republic till April 2, 2023 when he was moved to Anambra State, South East Nigeria.
Emeh was arrested for revealing shocking details about police extortion, torture, extrajudicial executions, and organ harvesting by senior police officers in the state, which has been known for its notoriety for extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearance of suspects in custody.
It had been reported that senior police officers in Zone 13 and Anambra state command were involved in extortion, extrajudicial execution, enforced disappearance, and organ harvesting of detainees in their custody.
After the shocking revelation, Nigerian Police authorities announced that it would launch a full-scale investigation into the allegations, but instead of taking the accused police officers into custody, it declared Emeh Nnamdi, who works with the accused police team, wanted for sundry offences.
Meanwhile, a police source told SaharaReporters that Emeh also indicted the Anambra Commissioner of Police.
According to the source, "he mentioned three cars which the CP is currently using which were seized from suspects that were later executed in police custody."
The source added, "He (Emeh) had earlier explained to his interrogators at Abuja how CSP Patrick Agbazue instructed him to transfer the money to his account from a suspect account and withdraw the money in cash which was handed over to him after exchanging it to dollars. So they are not even interested in investigating the killings and organ harvesting but merely looking for any evidence to nail him."