Trigger-happy Police Inspector Kills Five Youths, Injure 4 Others in Enugu
The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a trigger-happy police inspector for allegedly killing five people, and leaving four others critically injured.
The police inspector attached to Special Protection Unit Base 9, Umuahia, Abia State, is said to have shot at residents at a lotto office, to play on Sunday morning.
The inspector who’s identity has been kept secret was said to have gunned down five youths at the Golf Estate area of Enugu.
A statement by the Command’s spokesman Daniel Ndukwe, titled, “shooting incident at Golf Estate Enugu: CP Aliyu orders thorough investigation to unravel the circumstances surrounding the incident,” reads partly, “The Enugu State Commissioner of Police, CP Mohammed Ndatsu Aliyu, has ordered the Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, to carry out a thorough investigation to unravel the circumstances surrounding the shooting incident that occurred today, June 20, 2021 around 9.30 in the Golf Estate area of Enugu, involving a police inspector attached to Special Protection Unit, Base 9, Umuahia, Abia State and said to be on duty at RC Lotto Company located in the Estate.
“He has been arrested and taken into custody pending the conclusion of investigation.”
According to Ndukwe, the commissioner had urged residents, friends of the deceased persons to remain calm and cooperate with the command in the ongoing investigation.
Meanwhile, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has visited the victims at ESUT Teaching Hospital Parklane, Enugu, where they are receiving treatment.
A statement by the governor’s special assistant on media, Mr Louis Amoke, said the governor announced that his administration would pay all the medical expenses.
