Police Arrests Former Task Force DG, Osita Okereke

Osita Okereke, a previous Director-General, National Taskforce to Combat Illegal Importation, Smuggling of Small Arms and Light weapons have been captured by the Police.

Compact News comprehends that the ex-DG was captured for supposedly duping employment searchers of a great many naira.

He was additionally blamed for falsification, marching as the DG of the team and getting cash under affectations from candidates over the alliance.

Okereke was captured last Thursday while paying an affability approach the acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, at the Force Headquarters, Abuja.

He was said to have before opposed capture and coordinated his young men to ambush the policemen who went to catch him following a request against him.

The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, said that Okereke was in police authority for phony, pantomime and attacking police investigators.

He stated, "Okereke was captured for supposed pantomime, misrepresentation and striking policemen sent to capture him. He would be summoned in court after examination."

The acting Director-General, Importers Association of Nigeria (Special Taskforce), Amb. Chijioke Okoro, claimed that Okereke endeavored to commandeer the association by getting IMAN's endorsement of joining from the Corporate Affairs Commission on the affection that the first was lost.

He purportedly asserted that equipped looters assaulted the IMAN National Secretary, Kingsley Chikezie, and seized him of the said declaration.

From there on, Okereke supposedly connected for and got a crisp IMAN authentication of fuse from the CAC without appropriate promotions in papers as legally necessary.

He further expressed that Okereke was thusly suspended and later sacked as the Task Force DG and IMAN President.