PRIVATE MORTUARY DISCOVERED BY THE POLICE IN IMO STATE. (PHOTOS). #PRESS RELEASE

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 IMO STATE POLICE COMMAND PRESS RELEASE OF 6TH DECEMBER, 2025 IMO POLICE COMMAND INTENSIFY CRACKDOWN ON KIDNAPPING, VIOLENT CRIMES ALONG OWERRI–ABA EXPRESSWAY As part of ongoing efforts to curb kidnapping and other violent crimes along the Owerri–Aba Expressway, a high-powered team led by the Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command, CP Aboki Danjuma on Saturday, 6th December, 2025, inspected suspected kidnappers hideouts in Umuhu Autonomous Community in Ngor-Okpala following credible intelligence on Stanley Morocco Oparaugo, currently at large. The delegation included the Honourable Commissioner for Health, Dr. Chioma Egu; Chief Pathologist, Imo State Specialist Hospital, Dr. Ibeaja Okechukwu; members of the Ngor Okpala Vigilante Group led by Mr. Henry Ikpe; and the Chairman of Ngor Okpala LGA, Hon. Mrs. Chika Ibekwe. A hotel and a private mortuary owned by the suspect, allegedly used by kidnappers and violent criminals, were inspected. At the mortuary, decomposed and mutilated c...

WHY DISABLED PRISONERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE WHEELCHAIRS-NCOS. (PHOTO).


 


The Nigeria Correctional Service, NCoS, Abia State Command, has denied allegations that its officials are hostile to inmates with disabilities who are serving inside custodial centres in the state.


This is even as the NCoS has explained why it does not allow people living with disabilities to use wheelchairs in the custodial centres.


The NCoS officer in charge of records at Umuahia Correctional Centre, Chukwu Iheke, refuted the allegations on Friday while responding to the outcry by the Abia State Chairman of Spinal Cord Injury Association of Nigeria, Prince David Onuoha, who narrated how his members in various custodial centres in the state are prevented from using their wheelchairs, and sometimes, their metallic clutches, inside correctional facilities.


Such treatment, according to Onuoha, has caused his members physical, emotional and psychological trauma.


But Iheke, who represented the NCoS at a stakeholders’ meeting organized on strengthening access to justice for all in Abia by The Centre For Transparency Advocacy, said the decision to checkmate the use of wheelchairs was to prevent a situation where an inmate may use a metal object to kill his co-inmate during a fight.


Iheke who said the NCoS has been offering assistance to the vulnerable inmates, lamented that only 4 out of the 7 operational vehicles are functional to convey inmates to the 54 courts being covered by Umuahia Correctional Centre.


“That is why we not able to provide inmates in court sometimes as required by magistrates and judges,” he said.


He further said that the NCoS in collaboration with the Abia State judiciary is doing everything to decongest the custodial centres, which resulted in the recent jail delivery carried by Abia State Chief Judge, Justice Lilian Abai.


In her speech, the Executive Director, Center For Transparency Advocacy, CTA, Faith Nwadishi, said that efficient and equitable administration of criminal justice is central to upholding fundamental rights and justice.

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