Two Police Corporals, Felix serving at Elelenwo police division and Goodluck of the OPS department, state Command headquarters, Port Harcourt and Inspector Francis of the same OPS department among another policeman, both at large, attached to the Rivers State Police Command have been arrested by the police in Aba, Abia State for allegedly dispossessing a businessman of his goods and selling them. The policemen allegedly connived with three clearing agents to dispossess a business man of his goods at gun point and diverted same to Okigwe in Imo state, where they sold off the consignment containing ice fish.
The three clearing agents arrested with the policemen; Chukwunyeke Dominion, Prince Dibia and Imhoitsike Okhai were said to have tipped off the four policemen about a truck carrying ice- fish from Onne Port in Rivers State to Aba.
The policemen later mounted an illegal checkpoint at the Imo gate, boundary between Abia and Rivers states, pushed down the driver and his assistant and confiscated the consignment and diverted the truck to Okigwe, where they allegedly sold some of the goods to a waiting businessman while others were left to rot away.

The driver of the truck who reported the incident to the owner of the goods accused one of the clearing agents, Dibia of being behind the robbery.
The matter was later reported to the Police in Aba who arrested the clearing agent, Dibia who on interrogation disclosed how the truck was diverted to Okigwe. The two other clearing agents and two out of the four policemen involved in the act has been arrested while the Inspector and his unnamed colleague have been declared wanted by the police in Aba.
The truck was later abandoned at Ulakwo in Owerri North LGA of Imo state after the consignments were sold off.
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