Imo Estate Incident: Police Vows To Charge ex-governor Okorocha To Court If…

The Imo State Police Command, has vowed to charge to court anybody found culpable in the bloody incident that happened on Sunday at the sealed Spring Palm Estate in Owerri, the Imo state capital.

BIGPENNGR.COM had reported that ex-governor Rocha Okorocha had allegedly stormed the estate with his supporters, policemen, soldiers and personnel of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Sunday morning and ordered the unsealing of the estate.

The development which led to a free-for-all fight between security operatives stationed at the Spring Palm Estate and Okorocha’s security details, was said to have led to the arrest of the ex-governor.

Spokesman Imo State Police Command, Orlando Ikeokwu, while featuring on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ programme on Monday, however said Okorocha was not arrested but “invited” for questioning.

He said that the former governor released on Sunday night after he was “invited” for “questioning” over the unsealing the Spring Palm Estate linked to his wife, Nkechi.

“He was released later at night,” the PPRO said, adding, “If anybody is found culpable, definitely, he will be charged to court. If investigation proves that he (Okorocha) has committed an offence, he will be charged to court.”

Okorocha security details and Government officials had clashed at the estate, leading to a free-for-all, as cars were smashed and many persons injured.

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Okorocha had alleged that his predecessor, Governor Hope Uzodimma, attacked him with “more than 1,000 thugs” but the state Commissioner for Information, Declan Emelumba, dismissed Okorocha’s claim, adding that the former governor’s arrest was in line with the report of a White Paper, which indicated that the Royal Palm Estate in the state was built with taxpayers’ money and not Okorocha wife’s property.