The Edo State police command on Tuesday arrested two Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC officers for the alleged murder of one Mr Odion Omafo Samuel, 36 along Agbor Road, Benin. The two officers now in police cell were identified as Francis Igboh and Samson Alolade while efforts were on to apprehend two others Joseph Onolade and Sunday Ogi.

The deceased, Samuel, 36 had reportedly hired an Audi 80 car and was travelling in it with its driver when the embattled FRSC personnel flagged it down at Owuahe Hill, Agbor Road in Edo on Monday, October 14, 2019.

The spokesman of Edo State Police Command, DSP Chidi Nwabuzor confirmed the incident. He said, “Our operatives in the homicide section of the State Criminal and Intelligence Investigation Department, police headquarters, Benin City are investigating the case. It is a case of murder.”

The PUNCH gathered that the Head of Abudu outpost of the FRSC Mr. Ogbemi Olu was invited and quizzed by investigators at the police command headquarters, Benin City. His invitation was a follow up to the statements given by his embattled officers.

The Public Relations Officer for Edo Sector Command, Federal Road Safety Corps, Edoma Bajack declined to comment on the incident saying, “I cannot give you any information on that” and she cut the line.

The Edo State sector commander of FRSC, Anthony Oko also refused to speak when our correspondent called. “I cannot comment on what I do not know. The police in Abudu are handling it,” he said.

The deceased was said to have aided his driver to put up a strong resistance against alleged extortion attempts by the FRSC officers. We learnt that the altercation between the officers and the passenger paved the way for the driver to flee the scene, leaving him at the mercy of the FRSC officers.

The enraged officers allegedly descended on Samuel, who was chased into a nearby bush and beaten to death. Report said the deceased body was then abandoned as the traffic officers reportedly ran into the FRSC vehicle and sped off.

The PUNCH also gathered that the driver later drove to the deceased residence where he had picked him in a nearby village to inform his relatives of the incident but was accused of kidnapping and swiftly handed over to the police in Abudu.

Police investigation, however, led to the arrest of two of the FRSC officers who eventually took investigators to the bush where the decomposing body of the deceased was removed on Thursday, October 17, 2019.

It was gathered that the suspects in their statements accused the deceased passenger of snatching their booking tickets.

SOURCE: https://punchng.com/frsc-officers-in-police-custody-over-alleged-murder/

Nobody is above the law! When their form go come out self?

When once you were uniform in Nigeria you are a lord...I wish karma can be visiting them like this

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