The order issued by the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba to the Nigerian Police to suppress the rising security challenges in the South East and South-South, may have negative consequences arising from unnecessary raiding, arrests and subjection to extra judicial treatment of innocent Nigerians.
This could be the case a forthnite ago in Akwa Ibom state where EMEDIONG DAVIS, an ND 2 student of Fed Poly Nekede who returned home on Wednesday 12 of May, 2021due to the prolonged strike of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) but was the following day arrested and kept in captivity by the Nigerian Police unknown to his family, in what could be described, as one of the worst forms of human rights violations.
Davis, who is studying Electrical/Electronics Engineering, with Reg. No 18/0071/EE, also does fine art works, and paintings, as alternative source of income, to support his education, having come from a very poor background.
Sources confirmed that the only sin the young undergraduate committed was that he went to Obot Akara Local Government Area of the state to deliver an art work which he made for a family residing there, who had contracted him earlier for it.
He was conveyed in a motorcycle, by his friend, Saturday Okon Job, who accompanied him. That outing was to be the last time he and his friend were to be seen. They have been missing till date.
They both disappeared into thin air, without any traces. Their phones were switched off, and their lines went dead. They were both missing for days.
The families of Emediong Davis, and Saturday Okon Job, went all over Akwa Ibom state, searching for the two young men, but no breakthrough whatsoever.
Both families who reside in Ekot Ekpene, went to different hospitals, mortuaries, and police stations around Akwa Ibom state, in search of their loved ones. They even went to the Police Headquarters at
(Ikot Akpan Abia) but were told that, they weren’t there.
However, a ray of hope came their way when after six days of fruitless search, the family saw a newspaper publication, where the police had admitted arresting suspected ESN members wherein the names of Emediong Davis, and Saturday Okon Job, were prominently on the list amongst others.
According to the publication, the Akwa Ibom State Police Command confirmed the raiding of IPOB camp and subsequent arrest of some suspects.
The command in a codded message said they raided the camp which is located at Essien Udim Local Government Area which it describes as “The Camp/Shrine”.
It is not known for now the fate of this innocent student, who just returned from school, and was on his way to deliver an art work, who the Police has now branded member of IPOB/ESN in Akwa Ibom state.
Members of the families of the missing youths in a chat with pointblanknews.com is pleading with the Nigerian Police to let them the whereabout of their sons.
“I call on Nigerians, to lend their voices, in demanding for the wherabout and the release of these 2 young men. The Police is denying having them, despite publishing their names as IPOB/ESN members, that they arrested in the state. No one knows if they are still alive or not”, said one of the relatives. 
