Videos surface showing Uche Nwosu free from detention

Videos have emerged, online, of Uche Nwosu, son-in-law of former Governor Rochas Okorocha being given a rousing welcome, apparently freed from police detention.

Nwosu was arrested while attending a Church service yesterday, Sunday, December 26, 2021 in Nkwerre, Imo State and driven off to detention. 

Initially people thought he had been kidnapped, because of the dramatic nature of his arrest and stories to that effect went viral.

Heavily armed gunmen had stormed the premises of the Church in Nkwerre shooting sporadically and had bundled him out of the Church into a waiting vehicle which sped off.

Police spokesman in the state, CSP Michael Abattam had confirmed, in a statement, that Nwosu was arrested by security operatives, not kidnapped and was in police custody.

Senator Okorocha had said, thereafter, that Nwosu’s travail was an extension of the face-off he has been having with the incumbent governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, especially over his alleged looting of the state’s treasury while in office as governor.

Gov. Uzodimma has denied having a hand in the matter, insisting, through the state’s Commissioner of Information, Declan Emelumba, that the matter was purely a police affair.

One of the videos in circulation online show a long convoy of vehicles driving in with Nwosu, and people singing and dancing which songs to receive him.

Another shows him walking along with some young people escorting him while yet another video shows him receiving people who had come to sympathise with him over his brush with the security agents.

There has not yet, however, been an official police statement confirming that Uche Nwosu has been released and on what conditions if any, neither has there been any official statement saying why he was arrested in the first place.