4 Years After, Chief Judge Frees Man Detained For Dating Policewoman’s Daughter

After spending four years in detention for seeking to marry a policewoman’s daughter, a 29 – year-old commercial tricycle (keke napep) operator, Ephraim Udo, who was arrested and dumped in Uyo prison on the orders of the angry policewoman, has been set free by the Chief Judge (CJ) of Akwa Ibom State, Justice Ekaette Obot.

Udo, a native of Ikono local government area, was pardoned during her jail delivery exercise and inspection of Custodial Centres in the state.

The furious policewoman, our correspondent gathered, was said to have warned the freed suspect who had wanted to marry her daughter to steer clear, querying; “who’s a Keke man to marry my daughter?”

But the duo, locked in love, were said to have shunned the warning, and the relationship led to the production of two children out of wedlock, as the mother resisted and followed it up with the arrest and detention of the man, for four years without trial.

Fighting back tears, the freed inmate, told the CJ, that he has two children from the daughter of the policewoman, who had vowed that “a keke man cannot marry her daughter”.

He recalled that they had been in love for years, but regretted that her mother never wanted him around her daughter.

However, the story of Ephraim Udo, got the attention of the Chief Judge Obot, who ordered “the immediate and unconditional release of the poor boy,” amid a tearful and heart – broken “thank you,” gesture to the CJ.