Rape Of Minors Controversy: Nurse Reveals Police Paid Her To Give False Evidence

A nurse, identified as Chiemela Nonye, has alleged that Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Nkiruka Ugwu, attached to Area ‘M’ Command, Idimu, Lagos, paid her to provide false testimony in a rape case.

Nonye further claims that the senior police officer is now threatening to kill her if she reveals her involvement in the ongoing investigation at the Area ‘D’ Command, Mushin.

When contacted, CSP Ugwu denied the allegations and issued a stern warning:
“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. If it’s my case she wants, I’m ready for her. She cannot dare to mention my name.”

Regarding allegations of locking the shop of the minors’ mother and instructing touts to kill her if she opened it, CSP Ugwu said, “I have nothing to say. They can do whatever they want. I am not related to Amuche. God forbid, I am not.”

Nonye was arrested on January 22, 2025, at the Area ‘D’ Command in Mushin after a petition filed by Mr. Ekwenyu Uchenna. The petitioner accused Nonye of falsely claiming to have witnessed him raping three teenage siblings in April 2024.

Uchenna revealed that he was arrested based on this false accusation and detained for seven days at the Alausa Police Division. He was later transferred to the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) in Abuja, where he spent another three weeks in detention. Afterward, he was moved to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Panti, Lagos, where investigators found no evidence to support the claims. He was subsequently released.

Uchenna further alleged that the mother of the minors was also arrested, as the investigating officers, led by Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Philomena Ehiokhilen, claimed she conspired with him to assault her own children.

Upon his release, Uchenna filed a petition at the Area ‘D’ Command in Mushin. During interrogation, Nonye reportedly confessed in a written statement that she had been paid an undisclosed sum by CSP Ugwu to fabricate the allegations against Uchenna and the minors’ mother.

In a recorded telephone conversation between Nonye and the minors’ mother, the nurse tearfully begged for forgiveness, stating that CSP Ugwu had been threatening her life to keep her quiet.

The conversation went as follows:
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 the minors: “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 that you were misled. After hearing from you, if they find out you were not the main problem, they will know how to exclude you from the matter. Leave Uchenna out of this because I have told him you are not the real problem. CSP Ugwu is the real problem. She pushed you into this.”