How Police Inspector Framed Me for Murder, Collected N1.5m for Bail – Businessman 

…Writes IGP, PSC boss over alleged threat to life 

Rebecca Ejifoma 

A businessman, Mr Obinna Anachuna, has cried to the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Usman Baba and the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Mr Solomon Arase, to save him from Inspector Obinna Godwin.

Inspector Godwin who serves at Zone 13, Ukpo, Anambra State police command, allegedly threatened to eliminate Anachuna.

Anachuna also claimed that after inspector Godwin had threatened to kill him, he extorted N1.5m from him for bail.

Narrating his ordeal, the businessman said, “My elder sister, Nkeiru, was giving my tenants problems. So one of them petitioned her to Area Police Commands’ headquarters, Onitsha. She wanted me to take her side, but I couldn’t.”

After seeing the petition from his tenant, Anachuna wrote a counter-petition to the police command headquarters. 

“When the police invited them, my sister did not show up. She wrote another petition to the Zonal Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (ZIID) against the complainant.

“On Tuesday, 9th May 2023, I was invited as the landlord of this house by Inspector Godwin, who said he was working under a Deputy Commissioner of Police.”  

The businessman said he arrived at the police formation when Inspector Godwin told him his sister had petitioned him about his property. 

He emphasised: “I explained to him that the case between my sister and I was purely a civil matter that should not involve the police.” 

Anachuna, however, decried that Inspector Godwin twisted the narrative. 

First, he claimed the inspector accused him of killing his wife, who died 10 years ago, and manufacturing adulterated wine for public consumption.  

“He became angry and said he was going to detain me and eventually kill me in the cell if I didn’t pay the sum of N1.5m for bail,” he lamented. 

While noting that he gave Inspector Godwin N100,00 cash, he transferred N1.4m to the Inspector’s First Bank account with the name Double Wind Global Nigeria Limited.

“I was released with a warning that I must not tell anyone what I went through, or I would be shot,” he said. 

Anachuna, therefore, pleaded with the IGP and the CPSR chairman to weigh into the matter, retrieve his money and bring the Inspector to justice. 

“If the IGP and PSC chairman does not step in as fast as possible, my life is in danger as Inspector Godwin is ready to kill me,” the businessman decried. 

In his reaction, Inspector Godwin denied collecting a dime from him. “We are not investigating him on murder or producing adulterated wine. 

“His mother and elder sister reported on how he has been selling his late father’s property without taking care of them and how he has been beating them and reporting them to one shrine or the other. 

“He came to beg me not to prosecute him for assault and conduct likely to cause breach of peace.”