A town crier, said to be from Orogun community, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, has been arrested by the police for threatening residents of the state to vote for a particular candidate in the forthcoming governorship poll.
In the video, the town crier while speaking in Urhobo dialect claimed that an unnamed retired senior police officer directed him to announce that all members of the community must vote for a particular candidate or be ‘taken to the police area command and beaten to death by the police and buried by the government’.
The state police spokesperson, DSP Edafe Bright, in a statement on Saturday, said the command was probing the inciting clip.
Edafe noted that the state Commissioner of Police, Ari Muhammed, had directed the divisional police officer in charge of Orogun division to carry out a discreet investigation into the matter.
“He admitted that he was merely acting on his own and that no serving or retired senior police officer gave him such a directive.
“He, however, denied knowledge or involvement in the making of the latest version of the clip with English transcription as not being in line with his earlier message.
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