Daily Post reports that the Adamawa State Police Command has introduced examination into a reported case of an officer who allegedly threatened the life of a neighbour.

Social network had it earlier in the week that a particular deputy commissioner of police, a northerner, who has a home in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, rejected the buyer of a house beside his own because the new neighbour is from the southern part of the nation.

In action to the development, the Adamawa State Commissioner of Police, CP Mohammed Ahmed Barde, has ordered examinations, a statement from the state authorities command indicated Saturday night.

“The CP has actually directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Criminal Investigation Department to determine the accuracy of the accusations for even more necessary action,” the authorities stated in the declaration signed by Police Public Relations Officer, Suleiman Nguroje.

The police did not divulge the name of the officer in view, but when the story initially broke on the social media, one Deputy Commissioner of Police Ibrahim Babazango, who owns a house at an industrial district in the heart of Yola, Jimeta, reportedly threatened violent attacks against the brand-new buyer of a house beside his own house, Vincent Umeh.

The law enforcement officer, who hailed from Adamawa State, had supposedly stated he did not want a southerner as his next-door neighbour.

DCP Ibrahim Babazango, currently attached to Lagos State Police Command, was apparently exasperated to discover that someone from the South East had become his neighbour.

Vincent Umeh, who is Director of a personal service empire called Vikings Limited, bought your home in question, located at 33, Mohammed Mustapha Way, part of Yola’s Central Business District, formerly belonging to one Ismail Mamman.

Babazango was stated to have alerted Umeh to reverse the purchase offer or face bitter consequences, including threat to his personal security.

“We’re a homogeneous community, I don’t desire you; you can’t be my next door neighbour, I swear. What sort of insult is this? Can any northerner relocation now to the South-East, say Onitsha and just run into any area to buy a residential or commercial property; just like that?” the DCP reportedly queried in an audio recording.

Narrating his ordeal, Vincent Umeh had informed a news medium, “I got the property late in 2015 from one Ismail Mamman. I was amazed to get a call from a man who introduced himself as DCP Ibrahim Babazango, a neighbour of Ismail Mamman who offered the residential or commercial property to me. Due to the fact that he might not ensure my safety as his neighbour, he threatened that I need to abandon the home. Provided his threat, I reported the matter to the cops.”

It was more collected that Babazango was mad that his former neighbour sold the property to Umeh without using him (Babazango) the first right to buy.

On his part, the previous owner of the house in view, Ismail Mamman, said, “The residential or commercial property is mine and I sold it to Mr. Vincent Umeh. I had approached my former neighbour, DCP Ibrahim Babazango, that I wished to offer my property. He stated he would contact his bro but I didn’t get his feedback; so I offered it to a prepared purchaser. I have no problems with the buyer at all.”

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