{"id":1746,"date":"2021-11-03T14:19:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T14:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2021-11-03T14:19:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T14:19:32","slug":"kogi-police-deny-coercing-officers-to-pay-n10000-for-anambra-governorship-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/kogi-police-deny-coercing-officers-to-pay-n10000-for-anambra-governorship-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Kogi Police Deny Coercing Officers to Pay N10,000 for Anambra Governorship Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">&#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The Kogi State Police Command has denied coercing its personnel to pay N10,000 as transport fare for Anambra governorship election.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">In a statement issued in Lokoja on Wednesday, the Police spokesman, DSP Willam Ovye Aya, said the report making rounds on social media is only the figment of the author\u2019s imagination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He said the police command is fully responsible for all officers going to Anambra on assignment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cThe attention of the Kogi State Police Command had been drawn to the report making the round on social media that the Command asked it\u2019s personnel to pay the sun of N10,000 as transport fare to and fro for Anambra Governorship election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cThe Command wish to state unequivocally that, the report is not only the figment of the author\u2019s imagination, but totally false, malicious and highly mischievous. The Command did not request for any amount of money as transport fare from Officers deployed for the assignment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cThe Commissioner of Police, CP Idrisu Dauda Dabban psc (+), fdc while addressing the Officers deployed for the election stated that, the Police authority is responsible for the transportation of its personnel to and fro to Anambra State. The Command is surprised at the false and unfounded report on social media,\u201d the statement read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He urged the public to discountenance such mischievous information, and has ordered the Deputy Commissioner of Police Investigation to commence investigation into the alleged extortion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8230;\u00a0 The Kogi State Police Command has denied coercing its personnel to pay N10,000 as transport fare for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-1746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-kogi","8":"tag-police"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kogi Police Deny Coercing Officers to Pay N10,000 for Anambra Governorship Election - 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