Police Plotting To Change Electoral Offenders’ Statements -RSG

The Rivers State Government has alleged attempts by some officers of the Rivers State Police Command to change the earlier statements of electoral officials and fake security personnel arrested last Saturday with election materials at unauthorized places in Tai Local Government Area of the state.
A statement in Port Harcourt, yesterday, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, David Iyofor, reads: “Information just reaching us indicates that the Police in Rivers State want to doctor the statements of about 110 persons arrested for electoral offences and crimes in Tai Local Government of Rivers State during Saturday’s gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections.”
The statement indicated that, “The persons arrested include 75 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members who are ad-hoc staff of INEC. They were arrested with the electoral materials of about 9 wards by Mopol 56 in Rivers State. They were caught thumb-printing ballot papers for PDP candidates in the private residence of a PDP chieftain in Tai.
“The Governor of Rivers State has been reliably informed that the police now want to doctor their statements, in a bid to exonerate the culprits caught thumb-printing ballot papers for the PDP in Tai; so that the culprits can be subsequently released,” the statement added, and warned that any attempt to release the culprits without prosecution would not be tolerated by the government.