Police arrest four murder suspects in Abia
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The Police in Abia says it has so
far arrested four suspects in connection with the gruesome murder’ of
23-year-old Ikechukwu Uwagbaokwu, an undergraduate of Imo State Polytechnic,
Umuagwo.
Mr Ezekiel Onyeke, the Police Public
Relations Officer (PPRO) for the Police Command in the state, said this in a
telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Umuahia on
Thursday.
Onyeke said that the command had
commenced investigations to fish out Uwagbaokwu’s killers.
He denied the allegation that the
deceased was killed by policemen.
He said that three of the four
suspects had been quizzed and released.
The police image maker added that
the detained suspect, who allegedly identified the deceased’s house to the
gunmen, was assisting the police with useful information.
‘’Initially, four suspects were
arrested but three had been released while one is still in detention and he is
helping the police in their investigation, to get to the root of the
incident,’’ Onyeke said.
Meanwhile, the family of the
deceased had alleged in a petition to the Commissioner of Police, Mr Joshak
Habila, that their son was murdered by policemen from Ehimiri Housing Estate
Police Station, Umuahia.
The petition was signed by the
family lawyer, Dr. Godwin Chionye and made available to the newsmen in Umuahia.
The family urged the police boss to
carry out thorough investigation into ‘’the gruesome murder of our son.’’
The family claimed that the gunmen,
numbering at least 10, came to the deceased’s family house at Ohobe-Afara,
Umuahia, in a Hilux van and Camry car at about10.50 p.m. on Sept. 10 and shot
Uwagbaokwu dead.
‘’The armed policemen forced the
wooden door leading to the deceased’s room open and on sighting him, one of the
policemen shot him and he died on the spot,’’ it stated.
The father of the deceased, Mr
Emmanuel Uwagbaokwu, said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
in Umuahia, that those that came from Ehimiri Police Station killed his son.
“I am not suspecting but confirming
that those who killed my son came from Ehimiri Police Station, Umuahia,” he
said.
He urged the Inspector-General of
Police, Mr Solomon Arase, to order full investigation into the incident in
order to unravel the killers of his son.
He described his son, who was
studying Marketing at the polytechnic before his death, as ‘’a quiet and hard
working boy struggling to further his education”.
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