
A Mobile policeman attached to MOPOL 55, Osisioma, near Aba, Abia State allegedly shot a newly married Enugu State businessman,Mr. Ezekiel Okechukwu to death.
Late Okechukwu and his new wife were coming from a wedding ceremony on Sunday while 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.
Report says that the tricyclist reportedly refused to comply with the request of the policeman then He fired at the operator and Okechukwu was hit on the forehead as his wife watched.
“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”. (Witness)
The incident caused choas in that area, 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.
Source: DailySun
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