Wike must hand over Nunieh to us, police insist

The police has renewed their call on the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, to hand over embattled former acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Dr. Joi Nunieh, to them.

Recall that Wike had raced to Nunieh’s residence last week at Herbert Macauley Street, GRA to rescue her from a team of policemen who laid siege to arrest her.

According to the Punch, the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mukan, said the Inspector-General of Police Monitoring Unit was still on the matter, insisting that the governor should hand over Nunieh to the police chief, Adamu Mohammed, whose monitoring team is investigating the case involving Nunieh.

Mukan said, “Abuja is investigating. It is the IGP Monitoring Team that is investigating. So the directive to him (Wike) is to hand over her to the IG.”

But in a swift reaction, the State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, said the police could not be talking of arrest when the matter was in court, urging the security outfit to vacate the court order restraining them from arresting her.