Former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha has condemned the manner police arrested his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu.
Nwosu, was arrested while in a church on Sunday by armed security operatives, who reportedly shot sporadically into the air before whisking him away.
In his response to the development at a briefing in Owerri, the state capital, the former governor frowned at how the security operatives maltreated his son-in-law, describing the arrest as one too many.
Noting that the arrest of Nwosu was political, Okorocha told reporters, “This is one arrest too many as it relates to me and my family members,” he said. “There was just no justifiable reason for the police to have gone into a church to carry out such a shooting exercise.
“Even the security [operatives] attached to my family could not [do anything] because they identified the policemen. Why go to the church, why the shooting, why do you have to drag the innocent boy on the floor, why do you have to beat him up, why do you have to push my wife, why do you have to push my daughter?”
Okorocha, who represents the Imo West senatorial district at the National Assembly, accused the Imo State government of conniving with security operatives to harass his family members without a just course.