Some policemen have allegedly shot dead an
engineer, Chinedu Uzor, during an altercation at a
checkpoint in Sperando Junction, Abakaliki, Ebonyi
State.


PUNCH Metro learnt that the leader of the police
team, Inspector Agbo Onwe, had been arrested and
detained at the command headquarters, Abakaliki.
It was gathered that on Sunday, July 19, Uzor, a
mechanical engineer, was returning from a club
with a friend, whose name had yet to be identified,
when they got to a checkpoint at the Presco area.
It was learnt that 33-year-old Uzor reportedly
zoomed past the policemen but stopped at another
checkpoint at Sperando Junction.

It was learnt that the policemen at Presco,
however, came after him to Sperando and shot him
in the head and chest. A witness was said to have
contacted the family, after which he rushed the
engineer to a nearby hospital where he died.
Speaking with PUNCH Metro, Uzor’s wife, Nkiruka,
said she was expecting her husband on Sunday
when she was called on the telephone that he had
been shot and hospitalised.


She said: “They were two in the vehicle. They were
returning from a social club in the area. It was not
his first time of going. His custom was to drop his
friends, who were not mobile, to their respective
houses.


“On that Sunday, I called his phone, but he did not
pick. I called another person who was at the
meeting; he said they just dispersed. It was not up
to an hour that a man called me from a hospital
and asked whether I knew a man, Chinedu.


I replied
that he was my husband.
“He said my number was his last call, and he was
now in the hospital. So, I went there. But he was
injured badly, and minutes later, he died. I want
justice on this matter. I am a university student.


He
has aged parents that he cared for. We do not have
any child yet.”
An eyewitness said Uzor’s head was blown open by
the bullets and his brain tissues spilled out. He
said,
“The man was driving back home, and he saw those
men dressed in mufti flagging him to stop. For fear
that they might be robbers, he did not stop. When
he got to another checkpoint where uniformed
policemen were, he felt safe to stop.


“While he was explaining himself to the officers, the
guys in mufti from Presco arrived and shot him on
his head at close range. He was rushed to a
specialist hospital where he died.”
The Ebonyi State Police Public Relations Officer,
Anyanwu Chibuike, confirmed the arrest of Onwe,
adding that the matter was being investigated at the
State Department of Criminal Investigations.


He said, “The state command will not cover up any
form of such action. There was a similar incident
some time ago, and the policeman involved is now
in prison.
In this particular incident, the leader of
the team is in detention.
“The bullets have been retrieved, and they are
being subjected to ballistic forensic investigations.
The case is being investigated at the SCID. It is
unfortunate.”





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welcome to the zoo

op na wah to u oo, sey person wey dem kill dey take oxygen ni

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And they say Nigerian police is your friend....

How do you just shoot an unarmed man point blank in the head and chest?

That is why i dont just argue with them or claim right with them when i come across them....u never know which one of them has a mental case.

RIP to the dead