WHY ARE THEY AFRAID OF EMEKA UGWUONYE AND DPA?

 

The police wanted to give the country a wish-wash of how a socialite was killed by her boyfriend whose sole motive was to steal her car. But by coincidence, DPA investigated the case and noticed that the official narrative did not add up.

 

DPA conducted a transparent, intelligent and world class investigation into Chacha’s disappearance. The work of DPA made the police look like amateurs. Not only did that make the police envious, it created a hatred toward DPA by the police. They don’t want DPA report on the case to come to light. They want to push forward their own theory. But their theory is deeply flawed and their investigation incomplete. For instance, the police could not answer the following 20 questions:

 

(1) Why was David out of the country the day Chacha went missing? He was in Turkey on a business trip. What business was that? Who did he meet in Turkey? Was there any prior trip on that business or any more trips after? Was he on a legitimate business trip or was it just the standard alibi of the prime suspect being  out of town on the day of the crime?

 

(2) Who was the person that made the last phone call to Chacha? Why did he call Chacha? Since the police had the number and had successfully tracked other callers, why did they not track that last caller? If they did, what was the caller’s business with Chacha?

 

(3) The police had knowledge of the last call Chacha made and the person she called. How come there is no explanation as to the purpose of that call or the person called?

 

(4) Few days before her disappearance, Chacha complained to her friends and even posted it on her social media that she was receiving threats from people and she mentioned a lady involved with David as likely source of the threats. How come the police never looked into that direction?

 

(5) Chacha was so scared about her safety that she hired someone to install a CCTV camera in her apartment. The CCTV was installed two days after her disappearance. The police knew this. How come they did not ascertain from the person that installed the CCTV the details of Chacha’s fears and the threats she might have conveyed to the person?

 

(6) Few days after Chacha’s friends gained entry to Chacha’s house in the company of a police officer, they found newly made pot of soup that had gone bad. It suggests that Chacha did not plan to travel, but was rather expecting a visitor or visitors. Why didn’t the police look into that? And who was likely the visitor?

 

(7) How come there was no forensic evidence about the state or condition of Chacha’s home or room around the time of her disappearance?

 

(8) How come there was no statement from Chacha’s landlady about what she saw or heard or otherwise observed around the house around that time?

 

(9) Why did the Gwarimpa police station which received the report initially not open a file on the case and if they did, why was that file not transmitted to the command when the case was assigned to the anti-kidnapping unit? And if such file was transmitted, where is the evidence of such initial stage of police investigation?

 

(10). Why did the Command initiate their investigation as kidnapping case instead of a homicide case, even though the Command got involved more than a week after the disappearance of Chacha? Why did they think she was kidnapped instead if being murdered?

 

(11) Why was it that the police never made any public announcement that such a woman was missing and call on the public to come with information or to help in finding her? (Instead it was Chacha’s friends and DPA that were making efforts in that direction).

 

(12)  Why did the police not examine the social media activities of Chacha even though her two Facebook accounts remained open for more than a month after her disappearance? Why didn’t they try to see how the woman lived her life from social media activities?

 

(13) Why did the police continue to assume that Chacha was still alive more than a month after she went missing? As a result of this assumption, the police did not expand their search into a possible unidentified dead person. Instead, it was DPA that reasoned along that line of possibility and called for information on any unidentified death. In other words, why was the Command unaware of the unidentified dead body treated by Bwari police station?

 

(13) Where is the report of the Bwari police station on how they found the body and how they processed the case and what happened to the radio signals they sent to the Command? Why were those signals ignored by the Command, if they were ignored?

 

(14) What about the sanitation department that disposed of the body; where is their report?

 

(15) As of the last week of June, 2016, the command was finally aware of possible connection between the unidentified body and Chacha.  What steps did the police take to confirm or rule out that it was Chacha? Why was there no DNA test? Or why was  such test result denied for two years?

 

(16) Why did David Aiyedegbon obtain a death certificate for Chacha only after Jekwu’s ‘confession’ two years after? It means either that there was no DNA test done or that such test was positive, but was ignored or that it was negative and they are now trying to overule the test result with a coerced confession.

 

(17) How come the police ignored the overwhelming evidence of motive based on the 6 cases Chacha filed against David? How come the police did not show interest in the dispute between Chacha and David over properties in London and elsewhere?

 

(18) How come the police did not realize that David and Chacha were discussing cash settlement of the case she reported to the ICPC and money was in issue at the time she disappeared?

 

(19) In several social media posts, Chacha pointed at David’s lover as among the people after her life? Why did the police never obtain any statement from any such person?

 

(20) DPA began its investigation into Chacha’s case on the 13th June 2016. And DPA started with social media evidence, paying close attention to Chacha’s activities on Facebook. Within 3 days of announcing DPAs investigation, Chacha’s two Facebook accounts were shut down. Why did the police not try to find who had access to Chacha’s accounts and how such person obtained them?

 

There are at least 1000 similar questions that the police failed to ask for there to be an open transparent investigation into the Chacha’s case. We hope that the police can change its present attitude of hostility towards DPA and reopen the investigation into this case. Our investigation was not meant to ridicule the police or to expose their skill limitations. Indeed, in more civilised jurisdictions, the Police work hand-in-hand  with NGO’s and private individuals wherever the circumstances require such collaboration, in order to exhume and  enthrone the truth and not the victimisation of an organisation or  person(s) who showed genuine interest, the ability and  the willingness to help.

 

It is hoped that the new police authorities would look at the  above questions critically and reopen investigations into the mysterious disappearance of Chacha and possibly come up with more mind-boggling facts than they have at the moment.

 

Notwithstanding the  existence of bad eggs in the force, (which is common with other public and private institutions) there are still genuine and honest men and officers in the Nigerian Police Force who can gallantly rise to the occasion and deliver the best possible results.

 

Daniel Edeachi, Esquire,

Staff Counsel,

DPA.

13/02/2019