EXCLUSIVE: Nigeria Police Probe Exposes How IRT, SWAT Officers, Chained, Tortured Enugu Businessman, Staged Murder Confession

The report reveals how these units collaborated with a local community leader to kidnap, torture, and frame a prominent Enugu businessman for murder following a disputed land transaction.

A detailed interim investigation report from the Nigeria Police Force Complaint Response Unit (CRU), exclusively obtained by SaharaReporters, has exposed a chilling conspiracy involving officers of the Force Intelligence Department’s Intelligence Response Team (FID-IRT), Abuja, and the SWAT Team of the Enugu State Command.

The report reveals how these units collaborated with a local community leader to kidnap, torture, and frame a prominent Enugu businessman for murder following a disputed land transaction.

The report, tracking number TCRU100510-B, provides a forensic look into the ordeal of Mr. Nebo Kingsley, the CEO of Bishtec Soft Consult Ltd, who was targeted because he refused to yield his legally acquired property to land-grabbers.

The CRU investigation found that the root of the crisis was a consensual 2020 land agreement between the Etiti-Ngwo community and Kingsley’s firm for 200 plots of land. However, the report indicates that by September 2024, the Vice President-General of the community, Onyebuchi Ugwu, began a campaign of violence to reclaim the land.

When legal avenues failed Ugwu, he allegedly pivoted to a more lethal strategy: framing Kingsley for the murder of an individual identified as Sochima Onuh. The police report notes that despite the lack of a shred of evidence linking Kingsley to the death, FID-IRT officers from Abuja acted on Ugwu’s "malicious petition" with extreme prejudice.

The CRU investigators were blunt in their assessment of this motive, stating that the IRT's actions were a "disturbing pattern of abuse of power" designed to assist Ugwu in a civil matter. The report highlights that the IRT "indicted Mr. Nebo Kingsley in an interim report on alleged conspiracy" despite the fact that "no incriminating evidence was found against him".

The report, dated February 25, 2026, and signed by CSP Antetie Okokon Iniedu, describes a "commando-style operation" on August 15, 2025, where IRT personnel, working with Ugwu’s associates, tracked Kingsley to a ‘Shoprite mall’ in Enugu. The findings reveal a scene of state-sanctioned thuggery: "The complainant (Onyebuchi Ugwu) and his group... in the presence of FID-IRT personnel from Abuja, launched a commando-style operation, violently assaulting Mr. Nebo Kingsley in a public space. He was tear-gassed, his clothes were shredded, and he was bundled into a vehicle."

Rather than intervening to stop the assault, the IRT officers reportedly facilitated the violence, ensuring Kingsley was sufficiently brutalised before being moved to the SWAT facility in Enugu.

The ‘Black Site’ Torture and Staged Confessions

Once at the SWAT Enugu facility, Kingsley entered a nightmare of institutionalised torture. The CRU report confirms that he was held in a manner that "violates Section 34(1)(a) of the 1999 Constitution," which prohibits torture and degrading treatment.

The report provides harrowing details of the interrogation:

"Mr. Kingsley was chained, assaulted, and coerced into making a confession to an offence unknown to him. The officers recorded a 'staged' confession under duress... this act constitutes a grave violation of Section 29 of the Evidence Act 2011," the report said.

In a move described by investigators as "cyberbullying and professional misconduct," the officers allegedly used the victim's own seized devices to circulate the video of the tortured, half-naked businessman on social media to destroy his reputation. During this period, his iPad, Samsung phone, and ₦140,000 in cash were "confiscated and unaccounted for," crippling his ability to seek help.

The investigation also exposes a breakdown in the police chain of command, revealing that when CRU investigators arrived at the Enugu State Command to verify Kingsley’s condition, they met stiff resistance from local leadership.

The report notes: "The Officer-in-Charge of SWAT Enugu, CSP Enosieke, showed a total lack of cooperation and unprofessionalism by refusing CRU investigators access to the facility... SWAT Enugu failed to keep proper records of the detention, suggesting the facility was used as an unauthorized 'black site' for IRT operations."

The CRU found that the detention exceeded the 48-hour statutory limit, as Kingsley was held for nearly a month without being charged to a court of competent jurisdiction.

The report signed by Head of the Complaint Response Unit, CSP Anietie Okokon Iniedu, concluded that the entire operation was a "compromised investigation" fueled by financial and land interests.

The findings stated: "The officers failed to arrest or investigate the primary suspects involved in the initial land invasion and assault on Kingsley’s workers, focusing instead on the victim.

"The dissemination of assault images and staged confession videos while the victim was in exclusive police custody proves the officers were the source of the leak.

"The police machinery was hijacked for a purely civil land dispute, acting as a debt recovery and land-grabbing enforcement wing for the complainant."

Recommendations for Punishment

The CRU report is categorical in its demand for disciplinary action against the implicated officers, identifying CSP Moshood Lawal, ASP Samuel Habila, Inspr. Amobi Simon, and Inspr. Emmanuel as the primary actors in the abuse.

The report recommends: "The implicated officers should be referred to the appropriate disciplinary authorities for gross misconduct, physical assault, and abuse of power.

"An independent investigation into the alleged murder of 'Sunday' should be conducted by a neutral unit, and the current complainant, Onyebuchi Ugwu, must be excluded from the process to prevent further tampering.”

"Mr. Nebo Kingsley is entitled to legal redress and full compensation for the infringement of his fundamental human rights and the damage to his business reputation," it partly read.