Sad incident occurred in Alor community in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State on Christmas Day as a personnel of the Department of State Services (DSS) whose identity could not be ascertained shot dead a domestic staff of Emeka Eze, an engineer, in his residence.
But repudiating the allegations that the act was committed by a police officer, the spokesman of the state police command, Haruna Mohammed, a Superintendent of Police, in a statement, said that it was a DSS officer that killed the man while trying to stop a cow from escaping.
The statement reads: “The attention of the Anambra State Police Command has been drawn to a misleading report being circulated in the social media that Onyeocha Umuokwu was allegedly shot by a police officer at Engineer Eze’s house on the 25/12/2019 in Alor community, Idemili South LGA of Anambra State.
“The above report probably orchestrated by mischief makers who want to portray the police in bad light is totally misleading.”
“In order to clear ambiguity and to set the record straight, on the 25/12/2019 at the residence of Emeka Eze ‘m’ of Umuokwu village Alor, a DSS personnel whose identity is yet unknown attached to a VIP allegedly fired gun shot at a cow in a bid to stop it from escaping but the bullet missed target and allegedly hit one Nnaemaka Nnabuenyi (a domestic staff of the said engineer) popularly known as Onyeocha and the victim died on the spot. The incident was not reported to police.
“Meanwhile, following the incident, police detectives led by DPO Nnobi Division visited the scene but neither the engineer nor the victim’s relative are willing to provide any useful information that will aid police investigation.
“However, body was taken to the mortuary for autopsy and case is under investigation to ascertain circumstances surrounding the incident.”
Source: The Sun