Top sources told Naijacrawl on Friday that some police officers planned to gun down the whistleblower instead of arraigning him in court because of the “volume of information” at his disposal that could implicate several police personnel.

There is a grand plot at the Anambra State command of the Nigeria Police Force to kill 26-year-old National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Nnamdi Daniel Emeh, and to make excuses that he was trying to escape from prison, Naijacrawl has learned.

Top sources told Naijacrawl on Friday that some police officers planned to gun down the whistleblower instead of arraigning him in court because of the “volume of information” at his disposal that could implicate several police personnel.

Highly placed sources within the police further informed Naiijacrawl that the police authorities had concluded plans to transfer Nnamdi Emeh, arrested in connection with the multiple cases of killings and organ harvesting by senior police officers, to the Anambra State command for “further investigation.”

Emeh was recently declared wanted by the Nigeria Police Force on February 20, 2023, for allegedly impersonating an assistant superintendent of police in Anambra State.

He was said to have been arrested in a joint operation by INTERPOL operatives in the Benin Republic and Nigeria on Friday, March 3, 2023.

Emeh was arrested in connection with allegations in a case under investigation by the Force Headquarters in which top police officers in the Anambra State Police Command were alleged to be involved in human organ trafficking, kidnapping, and killing of suspects after extorting them.

It was reported that Emeh, an information technology (IT) expert, while serving as a tracker in the Anambra State Police Command, started impersonating senior officers of the Nigeria Police Force in Anambra State, including an Assistant Superintendent of Police.

A source at the police headquarters said the police were scared about the level of information at the disposal of Mr. Nnamdi Emeh.

“The volume of information available to the man is mind-boggling. We are afraid that if he is arraigned in court, he may bring down the entire police force. He has the names of everybody involved and the dates and times of every incident. "The police cannot afford to arraign him in court,” the source said.

Naijacrawl further gathered that there were plans to send Emeh to the Anambra command headquarters, where he would be silenced for good.

“He might be killed on the way to Anambra or in his cell and accused of trying to escape,” the source revealed.

Naijacrawl reported that Emeh was arrested following an investigation into the case of senior police officers in Anambra State led by CSP Patrick Agbazue who were accused of human rights abuses including kidnapping, murder, organ harvesting, and extortion.

The accusation was first made by an anonymous blogger, Gistlover, who provided pictures, videos, and account details of the victim and detailed how Agbazue and his team allegedly moved money from their victims’ bank accounts after execution and dumped their bodies into a private morgue.

The police had earlier set up an investigating team but had yet to release the report of its findings.

Naijacrawl had also reported last week that a coalition of civil society organizations demanded the release of Emeh.

In a joint statement, the organizations called on the police authorities to immediately drop the trumped-up charges of "unlawful possession of firearms, money laundering, defamation of character, fraud, and impersonation" leveled against the corps member.

The organizations include the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), HEDA Resource Centre, Accountability Lab, Progressive Impact Organization for Community Development (PRIMORG), Social Development Integrated Centre (Social Action), Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), and Sterling Centre for Law and Development Access to Justice.

Others are the Southern Free Press, Inc., Center for Human Rights Advocacy and Wholesome Society (CEHRAWS), Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Center (RULAAC), Human Rights Social Development and Environmental Foundation (HURSDEF), Confluence of Rights, Workers and Youth Solidarity Network, and Rivers Civil Society Organizations. Justice for Peace and Development Initiative, Avocats Sans Frontières, and Nnaemeka Ejiofor & Associates