Sergeant Iboko, who killed one of the four
armed robbers in the attack, suffered
severe gunshot injuries and died the next
day in a police clinic in Owerri after he
was allegedly rejected at the Federal
Medical Centre, Owerri.
The Owerri branch of Nigerian Bar Association on
Monday said that it would sue the Nigeria Police
Force and Zenith Bank for allegedly abandoning the
family of heroic Police Sergeant, Chukwudi Iboko,
who died during the February 22, 2017, robbery
which took place at the Wetheral Road branch of
Zenith bank in Owerri, the Imo State capital.
Sergeant Iboko, who killed one of the four armed
robbers in the attack, suffered severe gunshot
injuries and died the next day in a police clinic in
Owerri after he was allegedly rejected at the
Federal Medical Centre, Owerri.
He had been praised by many Nigerians, leading to
a massive campaign for raising fund by the Punch
Newspaper and some social media activists for his
family’s upkeep and to put his children back to
school.
Irked by the victim’s wife’s claim that both the
Police and the Bank had abandoned her and her
seven surviving children which was published in
Sunday PUNCH, the Owerri Branch NBA Chairman,
Lawrence Nwakaeti, said that it was a wicked act
for the police and the Bank to have abandoned and
neglected Iboko’s family.
The legal practitioner said that his branch would
have no option than to sue the police and bank to
compel them to take full responsibility of the family
of an officer who died in an active service while
protecting the assets and customers of the Zenith
Bank on the day of the incident.
Nwakeati said, “It is the height of wickedness for
the gallant policeman who died in the course of
duty to be abandoned by the police which he
served most meritoriously and gave his life as a
result and the bank for whom he paid the Supreme
price, to abandon the young family he left behind.
“We demand that both the Nigeria Police Force as
well as Zenith should take urgent steps towards
the upkeep of the family left behind by the
deceased police officer”.
The Chairman said that the children of the hero
police officer who had dropped out of school must
be assisted by the police and the bank to return to
and to assist his young widow.
“The children he left behind who have dropped out
of school must be assisted to return back to
school. Their dreams must not be allowed to die
just like that. It’s unfair. What message are we
sending to our men and women in uniform who
daily put their lives on the line so that others may
be safe?
“We owe those they leave behind a duty of care in
the event of the unthinkable happening to them”
According to him, “We hereby demand that the
family of this fallen officer be made to feel less the
death of their breadwinner”.
Nwakaeti said that In the event that nothing
happens in spite of the demand, the Association
shall take up the issue and ensure that Justice
comes the way of the grieving family.
SOURCE: PUNCH NEWSPAPER
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Power of gun.... leave by it and die by it. Rip brave man

The labour of our heroes past always go in vain. Why are we like this?

Why then will anybody want to defend and be loyal a country that has constantly fail the masses?

I think it is a shame that Nigeria as a country stand against every word and their meanings as written and said in the pledge and anthem.

Die for Nigeria and your family suffers! I just pity the Iboko family. May God comfort them. Good job by NBA, Owerri Branch.

Before they sue, NBA should show us what they have done for the family.

Pls add Buhari to this list.