Angry youths in Umuoke Obowo in Imo have set the police station in the town ablaze, following alleged killing of a young man in the community by a policeman.

The youths went on rampage, following the killing of one Ikenna Ogbunigwe by a police officer in the town on Monday. They burnt down the police station.

Ogbunigwe, a native of Umuoke, Obowo in the Obowo Local Government Area of the state was confirmed dead at the Mercy Hospital in Umuoke after he was rushed to the hospital by some youths.

Upon Ogbunigwe’s death the youths descended on the police station, carting away firearms and other exhibits at the station and releasing detainees.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the divisional police officer was taken to safety by his colleagues after the mob attempted to lynch him.

An eye-witness, who pleaded anonymity, revealed that Ogbunigwe’s corpse was taken to the police station in protest before the station was set ablaze.

The witness explained that trouble started when Ogbunigwe confronted the police officer over a minor argument at a restaurant in the town.

He said that the police officer pulled his trigger on the deceased, shooting sporadically when other youths tried to apprehend him over the killing of the young man.

The Imo State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Mr Orlando Ikeokwu, said he was yet to be briefed on the development when NAN contacted him on the matter.

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The oppressed are gradually rising up against the oppressors

This can only happen in d village, soon they will come here ranting they don't have a police station once crime increase in their community

My problem is why yoruba palm oil always smelling while cooking?

Imo state is the worse thing that ever happened to the south eastern union.

Those people life dey one kind.
Marry an imo lady then just get ready to die before your time.

Smh.anarchy is fast looming. The signs are all visible and Nigerians still think its a joke

We constantly live in fear because of the high-handedness of our security operatives. I still insist psychiatric evaluation should be conducted on every member of the force.

In Nigeria, each day we return home without harm is a huge miracle.

Igbo Amaka

Why confront a man with a gun?

Rip young man.

Nice one!
Though the report seems biased. "Carting away firearms"... Just to incriminate the youth.

water don pass garri o..... even the security personnel aint safe....9ja which way??

Terrible.

Waoo...guys dey vex Gan

Gradually the good people of Nigeria will gather momentum to fight injustice at all levels against this satanic government especially the Nigerian Police! any Policeman who kills anyone unjustly, should be killed on the spot!!!!

nice one

We have too many trigger-happy policemen in Nigeria

Guilderland1:
My problem is why yoruba palm oil always smelling while cooking?

because its original, not diluted Igbo made palmoil

This not the best tin pks let the justice

So because a random policeman murdered someone they went ahead to set a whole policestation ablaze; something meant for your service
meanwhile,you just relieved the policemen of some workload- at the end of the month,they'll still get their salary.

A cataclysmic revolution is imminent

Yeah
Justice must prevail

This is what i love about Arab nations

You must give them justice or they take it by force

RIP to the dead. the youth did the right thing. nobody is above the law,if anybody thinks otherwise then the law will be set aside. kudos to the youth

I wonder if these kind of things happen in other countries

Boys are not smiling

Setting the police station ablaze is not the right approach to follow, we should do things appropriatlly.

MrMumu:
Imo state is the worse thing that ever happened to the south eastern union.

Those people life dey one kind.
Marry an imo lady then just get ready to die before your time.

You are really a mumu, with NIS seal of quality .

E be like say everybody for Nigeria just dey vex

MrMumu:
Imo state is the worse thing that ever happened to the south eastern union.

Those people life dey one kind.
Marry an imo lady then just get ready to die before your time.

totally agree, these people give ibos and southern region a bad name, ikwerre is imo, they re responsible for the bad image of rivers state.

never seen people so endowed with criminality.