…Killer cop in custody.
The Commissioner of Police in charge of the FCT, CP Benneth Igweh, has directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police DCP in charge of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to commence an immediate and discreet investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of an Abuja resident, Onyebuchi Anene.
The deceased, a resident of Kubwa in Bwari Local Council of Abuja, was reportedly shot during an argument with a police officer on Wednesday.
Trouble was said to have started after the late Anene was involved in a minor accident with a commercial motorcycle operator, also know as okada, and had reportedly settled with the okada rider and his passenger.
He was said to have been going into an estate where he resides when some policemen arrived the scene and asked him to follow them to the station, but he refused on the grounds that the issue had been resolved and the okada man and his passenger had left.
However, in the course of the argument that ensued one of the policemen shot Aneni at close range and he was reportedly rushed to Kubwa General Hospital, but was referred to National Hospital, Abuja, where he was pronounced dead.
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for the command, SP Josephine Adeh, in a press statement on Friday in Abuja, said it was a case of accidental discharge of the officers weapon.
The statement read: “In response to the tragic and unprecedented incident that resulted in the untimely demise of one Oyebuchi Anene ‘m’ of Byazhin Abuja on May 22, 2024, at about 9:45 PM, the Commissioner of Police, FCT, CP Benneth C. Igweh, directed the DC Criminal Investigation Department to commence an immediate and discreet investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of the deceased.
