The FCT Command of the Police has launched probe into alleged sexual assault by one off its senior officers, DSP Jude Ifeanyi.
Trouble came calling for Ifeanyi when a 2-minutes, 47 seconds video surfaced online of one Miss Ugwoegbu Ugomwa alleging sexual assault by the senior police officer.
The video, which apparently was shot in what appeared to be deserted offices of the command, saw the victim crying profusely and asking members of the public to come to her aide, while saying that she had posted the number of the police officer on social media.
Reacting to the ugly development, the FCT Police Command in a statement by its spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, said the video was a product of “erotic relationship” between the two gone sour.
“Ongoing investigation suggests that both parties are most likely in some sort of erotic relationship. and had gone out to drink and were highly spirited that evening,” the statement claimed.
It further reads, “The alleged officer had promised to drop Miss Ugwoegbu off when he branched into the office to ease himself as the video insinuated.
“An argument ensued between both parties on the stairways resulting in physical struggles hence the rash pronouncements that were regrettably too late to be retracted.”
Adeh explained that internal investigation for necessary disciplinary actions has been instituted against the erring officer, while stating that “earlier that same day, Miss Ugwoegbu F. Ugomwa had been to the Command’s SCID where she had earlier reported a case of blackmail, threat, defamation of character and sexual harassment and sundry offenses against another person and had lauded the investigation approach of the officers, it is, however, disappointing to have seen the command dragged into their undefined private episode.”
Adeh dissociated the Command from the alleged act and assured the public that due diligence is guaranteed in the investigation without any restraint in ensuring that justice is served in both instances.
