Group Petitions CP Over Murder Attempt In Bonny

The National Associa
tion of  Plant Operators (NAPO), Rivers State Branch has petitioned the state Commissioner of Police, Johnson Tunde Ogunsakin, over an alleged murder attempt on chairman of the Bonny Branch of the Association, Comrade Harold I. Benstowe by the Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) in Bonny, DSP Iwuoha Romanus and one Daniel G. Pollyn.
In a three page letter dated 6th March 2014, signed by the state chairman, Comrade Richard Harry, called for an investigation of the premediated attack which occured at the premises of the state security services (SSS), Bonny on the 3rd March, 2014.
The group alleged that on the said day, Benstowe was violency attacked by some armed thugs led by Daniel G. Pollyn and backed by the divisional crime officer for Bonny Central Police adding that the intervention of a police patrol team saved the victim from being clubbed to death.
The group alleged that after the attack, the DCO ordered the police personnel at the counter at the Bonny Central Police Station to refuse to enter the complain of the NAPO chairman Com Benstowe in the record book when the matter was to be reported and instead ordered that he should be detained and refused access to his doctors even with  blood all over his body.
The group also averred that DSP Iwuoha threatened to wipe out members of the union from the area because of the employment opportunity they wished to control adding that the DCO also frustrated the initial attack on Com. Bestowe last year by the same group.
NAPO called on the state commissioner of police to order full investigation into the matter and bring those involved in this continuing threat to life to justice.
Also, in a petition dated 4th March 2014, to the commissioner of police among other things called for urgent action to ensure that the suspects are arrested and persecuted accordingly.
He stated that the safety of his clients are no longer guaranteed in Bonny Island as the assailants have vowed to make bonny island inhabitable for members of NAPO.
When contacted on phone, the Divisional Crime Officer, (DCO) Bonny Island, ASP Ben Iwuoha told our correspondent that he has no “comment to make”.
Also contacted on phone on the matter, the state Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO), Ahmed Musa said he was indisposed but a senior officer who preferred anonymity confirmed that the command was in receipt of the petitions.