Police have insisted that Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, should hand over embattled former acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Dr. Joi Nunieh, to them.
Wike had last week rescued Nunieh from policemen who had laid siege to her PortHarcourt home to arrest her. The Rivers governor had driven out the policemen from her residence and immediately ferried her to the Government House, where she has since been taking refuge.
But Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mukan, said the Inspector-General of Police Monitoring Unit was still after the ex-acting MD of the NDDC.
Mukan insisted that the governor should hand over Nunieh to the police chief, Adamu Mohammed, whose monitoring team is investigating the case involving her.
“Abuja is investigating. It is the IGP Monitoring Team that is investigating. So the directive to him (Wike) is to hand over her to the IG,” he said.
But in a swift reaction, the State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, said the police could not be talking of arrest when the matter was in court.
Nsirim urged the police to first vacate the court order restraining them from arresting her.