Real reason I was picked up, released by police –Kalu Ikeagwu

A day after the media was awash with reports that Nollywood actor Kalu Ikeagwu was arrested and later released by men of the Nigerian police over allegations of theft and homicide, the thespian has come out to clear the air on why he was picked up by supposed security operatives.

In an interview he granted Sahara Weekly, the actor who recently got married informed that he was accosted by two plain clothe men at his residence who flashed police ID’s ordering him to follow them in a white unmarked bus.

Kalu said he was variously taken to Pen-cinema Police station Agege, Lagos State, area G Police Station, Ogba which is closer to his (Kalu’s) residence, and was finally taken to area F, Police Station, Ikeja where he was interrogated by man identified as Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Philips.

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The actor said he was taken into a room where according to him; “DSP Philips showed me a telephone number and asked if I knew the owner of the number…”

Continuing, the fair skinned actor said he was later able to sort out the owner of the phone number whom he identified as a friend who picked him up at the airport a few days earlier.

Kalu later said he inquired from his friend if he had bought a phone recently and his friend said ‘yes’ and narrated how he had swapped his old phone (ipone6) for a new one (Iphone7) at the popular computer village Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria and paid an extra N37.000 in a legal business transaction with a phone dealer.

“That was when they explained to me that since I was the last person that dialled my friend’s phone number, it made me a soft target-hence my arrest”.

By Ahmed Boulor…

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