Vanguard Reporter Tricked And Arrested By SARS Over Ebonyi Invasion Reports

Peter Okutu

On Tuesday, Special Anti-Robbery Squad attached to the Ebonyi State Police Command, arrested Mr Peter
Okutu, who is a Vanguard correspondent in the state.

It was learnt that Peter Okutu was arrested by SARS operatives at the Woodberry Hotel Abakaliki, on the orders of the Ohaukwu Local Government Council Chairman, Mr Clement Odah over a report he did about military invasion of Umuogodoakpu-Ngbo in the Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state.

How he was tricked; 

Okutu had been invited by Mr Francis Nwaze, the Special Assistant on Media to the Governor, over the report. Nwaze later asked the reporter to meet Odah to brief him on the story.

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Okutu was later contacted by Odah, who then asked him to meet him at the Woodberry Hotel. The reporter was in the belief that he was about to be briefed on the situation of things by the council but instead, was arrested.

It was gathered that the council chairman had queried Okutu on the sources of his report when he got to the hotel and while he was still explaining to him, four SARS men emerged from within the hotel premises and arrested him.

Confirming the arrest, the Commissioner of Police in Ebonyi State, CP Awosola Awotunde said;

“That report by the Vanguard reporter in the state was baseless and unfounded.

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“You people are overheating the polity. You people have powers, we know; but you should not abuse it. So, you people should take it easy.”