FROM GEOFFREY ANYANWU, AwkaAnambra
State Commissioner for Special Duties, Mr. Vincent Ezenwajiaku,
currently entangled in a controversy over fraud allegation leveled
against him by the Nigeria Police, Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Lagos and
Mr. Chuks Mgbemena, a director at Nigeria Maritime and Safety Agency
(NIMASA), has said that he did not honour the invitation of the police
because of inhuman treatment they give to people.The SFU had last week declared the commissioner wanted for allegedly obtaining money, by tricks, with an unregistered company and for shunning its invitations.
Ezenwajiaku told newsmen in Awka, yesterday, that against the claim of SFU and Mgbemena, Bio Plastics Industries Limited was incorporated on September 5, 1995 with registration number, RC 278625 at No. 30 Chief Ezenwajiaku Street, Ajao Estate, Lagos.
The company, he further said, started production in 1995 and was a member of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), plastics and rubber group, till production stopped in 2001
and was wound up finally in 2005.
On his reasons for shunning the police, Ezenwajiaku said when people honour their invitations, they are subjected to all manner of intimidation, harassment and torture.
He further described the police as lawless people, saying, “didn’t you see what they wrote in the papers? They knew that there was order against them, but these are men who believe in illegalities; they eat with illegality; their whole process is illegal. They torture people in their cell until you cough out money. They intimidate you; they harass you; they detain you illegally without access to your lawyer or a relation until you get someone who will pay the money. That is why I refused to be subjected to their torture. I had to go to the High Court to seek my fundamental human rights and now they termed it that I ran away. I have been talking with them on phone.
“If they are law-abiding people, they have been served the court order baring them from proceeding with this matter, pending the determination of the application; they wouldn’t make that statement, but these are men of impunity, coated with police uniform and they use it to abuse the law rather than protect the law, that is their bane.”
The commissioner insisted that his deal with Mgbemena was a genuine business transaction, contrary to claims by the police and the complainant that Bio Plastics was bubble company. He argued that Mgbemena’s elder brother, Dr. Mike Mgbemena, was the general manager of the said company at the time in question.
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