According to Chiemela Nonye, a nurse at Area “M” Command in Idimu, Lagos, Chief Superintendent of Police Nkiruka Ugwu has paid her to testify falsely in a rape case. She claims the senior police officer is threatening to kill her if she mentions her name in an ongoing rape investigation at Area “D” Command in Mushin.
But when CSP Ugwu was called, she stated, “I told her (Nonye ) never to involve my name. She can’t try it. Why would she involve my name? Am I fighting her with Amuche? She should go ahead and do whatever she wants to do. If it is my case she wants, I am ready for her. She cannot try to mention my name.”
Nonye was arrested by the Police at the Area D Command, in Mushin, on January 22, 2025 following a petition by one Mr Ekwenyu Uchenna.
The petitioner stated that Nonye bore false witness against him, by claiming she witnessed his defiling of three teenage siblings in April 2024.
Consequently, the petitioner was reportedly arrested and detained for seven days at the Alausa Police Division, from where he was transferred to the Force Criminal Investigation Department, FCID in Abuja, where he spent additional three weeks in detention.
After a petition by a man named Mr. Ekwenyu Uchenna, Nonye was taken into custody by the police at the Area D Command in Mushin on January 22, 2025.
According to the petitioner, Nonye gave false testimony against him by saying she saw him defile three teenage brothers in April 2024.
After being arrested and held for seven days at the Alausa Police Division, the petitioner was reportedly moved to the Force Criminal Investigation Department, FCID, in Abuja, where he was held for three more weeks.
Uchena told a press that he was transferred from FCID Abuja to the State Criminal Investigation, SCID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos, where detectives conducted a covert investigation and concluded that there were no facts to support his penetration of the children.
He was then freed. He claims that he and the mother of the three children were arrested together because investigators under the command of Deputy Superintendent of Police DSP Philomena Ehiokhilen claimed that she conspired with him to rape her children.
But after being freed, he petitioned the Area D Command in Mushin, where nurse Nonye acknowledged in a written statement during questioning that the CSP had given her an undisclosed sum to make up the lies against Uchenna and the children’s mother.
In an audio recording of a phone call between nurse Nonye and a mother of a minor, the mother begged for pardon, saying that CSP Ugwu had been threatening to murder her if she mentioned her name.
The phone conversation that was recorded went like this;
Nurse Nonye:“I don’t know why I agreed to this. As I speak with you, I’m in tears. Please forgive me. I didn’t know why I agreed to frame Uchenna. Please help me apologize to Uche.”
Mother of minor: “We are all human. I know how both of us were. I went to my lawyer’s office and explained everything, telling him it was not you. You were pushed into this. If he wants to speak to you, he can confirm you were pushed out of ignorance. After hearing from you, if they find out you were misled; they will know how to exclude you from the matter. So, leave Uchenna out of this because I have told him you are not the main problem. CSP Ugwu is the real problem. She pushed you into this.”
The mother of the three minors, alleged that the CSP Ugwu had threatened her life numerous times and also destroyed her businesses, according to source.
She stated, “CSP Ugwu came to my shop located at Cele-Egbe, last year and seized my goods. She told the touts in the area to kill me if I tried to go near the shop. She said she was the Divisional Police Officer, DPO.”