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Aba murder: Police arrest killer cop

Ebere Uzoukwa, Umuahia A policeman identified as Ibe Uchenna has been arrested by the Abia State Police command for allegedly killing a man in Aba.  Uchenna, who is attached to the Central Police Station, Aba, was said to have shot the victim identified as Chinedu Peter while on a routine patrol with his team in […]

Ebere Uzoukwa, Umuahia

A policeman identified as Ibe Uchenna has been arrested by the Abia State Police command for allegedly killing a man in Aba.

 Uchenna, who is attached to the Central Police Station, Aba, was said to have shot the victim identified as Chinedu Peter while on a routine patrol with his team in front of Christ the King Cathedral Catholic, along Asa road, Aba.

Abia State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Leye Oyebade, who confirmed the arrest of the suspected killer cop, also stated that the matter had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, for further investigations.

Recall that a police team had last week accosted Peter and other passengers in a bus at the CKC area and ordered them to disembark and lie down. The victim obeyed, but later protested when a man of Hausa origin also in the same bus was freed by the police team.

The victim pleaded with the police to also release other passengers, but in the ensuing argument, the policeman reportedly shot the victim, leaving him in a pool of his blood.

A family source hinted that the police team later dumped the body in a secret location, unaware that the girlfriend was monitoring their movement.

When the matter was reported at the Aba Central Police Station the following day, the police team denied the incident. But Peter’s girlfriend later identified the killer cop when the Police Area Commander in Aba, ACP Peter Wagbara, summoned the policemen on duty on the day of the incident to his office.

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Source:Punch Newspapers

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