A Mobile policeman
attached to MOPOL 55, Osisioma, near Aba, Abia State has allegedly shot dead an
Aba businessman. Mr. Ezekiel Okechukwu. The victim, who married recently, hails
from Enugu State.
The
late Okechukwu had after church service last Sunday, went for a wedding
ceremony in the city, with his new wife. As they were going home after the
event, on getting to the popular Ukwu Apu bus stop along Umule in Osisioma Ngwa
Local Government, a policeman was said to have stopped a commercial tricyclist
and demanded N20 bribe from the rider.
But
the police spokesperson, Nta Ogbonnaya Nta, said it was not true.
The
rider according to a source, reportedly refused to accede to the request of the
policeman said to be notorious in the area. He fired at the operator and
Okechukwu was hit on the forehead as his wife watched.
A
witness said: “The man was returning from a function with the wife when a stray
bullet from the gun of one of the policemen on duty at the check-point, hit
him. “He died before help could come his way”.
The
incident caused pandemonium in the neighborhood, as shop owners hurriedly
closed for business in an attempt to evade possible police mass arrest.
But
ASP Nta said according to an entry made to the police by Okechukwu’s
widow, Uju, the killer was in mufti. He said Commissioner of Police,
Adeleye Oyebade, is investigating the incident.
-Sun News
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