The Divisional Police Officer
in charge of the Ijede Police Station, Nwaoha Uzoma, has died.
According to Punch, Uzoma’s
corpse was found in his office on Thursday, a day after he entered and locked
himself in.
It was gathered that
after he did not pick his calls, anxious relatives and policemen in the station
broke the door open and saw his lifeless body on the floor.
Punch gathered that Uzoma, a
Superintendent of Police, was formerly heading the Anthony Police Division,
before he was posted to Ijede, in the Ikorodu area, early in December.
The deceased, who was
married with children, was in his fifties.
A police source said,
“The DPO was posted from Anthony to Ijede around December 5. At that time, he
had an illness, which was not very serious. He was a friendly man who could
sometime become angry and that’s when you offend him. But once he showed his
anger and you begged him, he forgave and that would end it.
“On the day of the
incident, he entered his office and shut himself in. People didn’t suspect
anything because he sometimes slept there. People didn’t see him come out
throughout that day and then the next day, they called his phone repeatedly but
he didn’t pick it.
“That was how people
became suspicious and broke the door. They found his corpse on the floor.”
.The Lagos State Police
Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, while confirming the incident on
Sunday, explained that the police had yet to ascertain the cause of death.
He said, “On December
25, at about 8am, SP Nwaoha Uzoma, was found dead in his office at the Ijede
Police Station. His corpse was removed and deposited at St. Raphael Hospital
morgue for autopsy.”
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