‘My Son-In-Law’s Leg Has Been Scattered By Gunshot’ – Rochas Okorocha Cries Out After Arrest

The former governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha has cried out over the attack made on him and his people on Sunday which later resorted into his arrest by the state government.

The government revealed that he was arrested for unsealing an estate that is under investigation by the state government.

When speaking, the former governor made it known that He doesn’t understand what is happening because He had just came back from an occasion to inquire about what happened at his wife’s estate, only to be arrested.

Speaking during a recorded audio interview played on Channels TV, the senator said he “can’t even imagine” what happened to him during the encounter.

He said: “I came back from an occasion and proceeded to Royal Palm Hotel to enquire what actually happened. On getting there, I saw a lot of thugs. They started molesting, cutting my boys, shooting. But the police were there too, and they did nothing and said nothing.

“They were macheting… my orderlies rushed me to a room and locked me up. Those boys had teargas, police also were throwing teargas. As they were advancing, the police were backing them up; and they were coming and were shooting.

“I enquired and they said it is the government house police. And I asked, is this with the directive of the IG or the CP? Can the governor actually use government house police to do what he is doing?

“They kept me in a room for some time and all my boys got injured. Right now, my in-law was shot and his legs have been scattered.”

Okorocha fell out with Uzodinma in the build-up to the 2019 governorship election in the state after he moved against the latter’s emergence as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).