Police parade Igbo community leader, 11 others for electoral offences
THE leader of Igbo community in Ibeshe riverine area of Lagos State, Eze Chinedu Mozie, who was detained by the police in Lagos after he challenged thugs for not allowing Igbos in the community to vote in the just ended gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections was among 12 suspects paraded, yesterday for electoral offences by the police at the State Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department, SCIID, Panti, Yaba. This came after the Supreme Council of Ndi Eze Igbo in Lagos, raised alarm over the continued detention of the leader in police custody for insisting on exercising his franchise with other Igbos in the community leading to his being manhandled by thugs wielding dangerous weapons and later arrested by the police. Parading the suspects at SCIID, Panti, Yaba, spokesman of the command, Benjamin Hundeyin said they were arrested at Mushin, Ojo and Aswani areas of the state and 114 PVCs, two ballot boxes, one BVAS machine and three ballot papers were recovered from them....