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By Tony Edike
ENUGU—Tragedy struck in Enugu Saturday night when the Kwara State
Commissioner of Police, Mr. Chinwike Asadu, was shot dead by unknown gunmen.
His police orderly, Aloha Olaniyi and Driver, Oliver Omeh, who were with him at the
time of the incident sustained serious bullet wounds and are said to be lying
critically at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu.
The incident occurred at Amorji Nike, near the densely populated Abakpa Nike area
in Enugu East local government area within the state capital at about 10 pm.
The Police Commissioner, who reportedly visited his home in Enugu at the weekend,
was driving into his private residence when the assailants who may have laid an
ambush around his residence attacked him and his aides about 100 metres away
from his house.
CP Asadu, according to sources, had a visitor whom he escorted along with his
driver and a police orderly posted to guard his residence from Abakpa Police
Division, leaving behind the official escort team that came with him from Kwara
State Police Command.
They were returning to the house after dropping the visitor when they suddenly
noticed a bus trailing them behind as they branched into his street only for the
gunmen to start firing at the vehicle from the rear.
The gunmen were said to have shot sporadically killing the CP and wounding the
two policemen but before they escaped, they reportedly took away the rifle of the
orderly whose body was riddled with bullets.
The orderly was shot on the chest, stomach, hands and leg while the driver was
shot on his legs.
“The CP was driving into his personal residence in Amorji Nike after dropping a
visitor that night. He was with a police orderly and his driver at the time of the
incident. Just about 100 metres to his house they noticed that a bus was trailing
them behind and before they could know what was happening the gunmen opened
fire and killed the CP instantly. His orderly and driver were also shot and they were
seriously wounded.
“The gunmen ran away in their bus before the CP’s escort team that was inside his
compound noticed what was happening. When the escort team and sympathizers
rushed to the scene, they met CP Asadu and his orderlies in a pool of blood. They
were rushed to the National Orthopaedic Hospital where doctors confirmed the CP
dead. The other two policemen are now on admission at the hospital,” said the
source.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu confirmed the incident
when Vanguard contacted him yesterday, describing the attack as very
unfortunate. He said that the CP was on a private visit to his home in Enugu when
the incident occurred.
According to him, the police would do everything possible to fish out the assailants
as investigations into the bizarre incident have already commenced.
The new Police Commissioner in Enugu State, Mr. Tonye Ebitibituwa, was said to
have directed his men to conduct serious manhunt for the gunmen within and
outside the state capital in order to track them down without delay.
Meanwhile, doctors at the National Orthopeadic Hospital, Enugu are battling to save
the two wounded police officers. The orderly who was seriously battered by bullets,
according to doctors, was said to be in a stable condition after the surgeries
conducted on him throughout Saturday night. The driver was also said to be in a
stable condition.

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If this can happen to a police commissioner then nobody is secure in this country. May his soul rest in peace.

A very unfortunate incident. The policing system in this country is ineffective. There's complete lack of intelligence gathering. What we have is a reactive police, that only reacts after crime has been committed.

I think we may need to disband the current police and create another body from scratch. We need to create a police that will live amongst the people and have as much of their personnel in mofty (for intelligence gathering) as those in uniforms. Some say the problem of the police is funding but I think its much more than funding