Kwara State Commissioner of Police Chinwike Asadu Shot Dead in Enugu
Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Chinwike
Asadu
The level of insecurity of lives in the country, even
among those who are supposed to uphold law and order in the society, was again
emphasized this weekend with the killing of a Police Commissioner.
Sadly, the Kwara State Commissioner of Police,
Chinwike Asadu, was shot dead by unknown gunmen on Saturday
night near his home in Enugu state.
His police orderly and driver who were reportedly
with him at the time of the incident sustained serious bullet wounds and are
said to be lying critically at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu. Vanguard reports that the incident occurred at Amorji Nike,
near the densely populated Abakpa Nike area in Enugu East local government area
within the state capital at about 10 pm.
The Police Commissioner, who
visited his home in Enugu at the weekend, was driving into his private
residence when the assailants who may have laid an ambush around his residence
attacked him and his aides about 100 metres away from his house. CP Asadu,
according to sources, had a visitor whom he escorted along with his driver and a
police orderly posted to guard his residence from Abakpa Police Division,
leaving behind the official escort team that came with him from Kwara State
Police Command.
They were returning to the
house after dropping the visitor when they suddenly noticed a bus trailing them
behind as they branched into his street only for the gunmen to start firing at
the vehicle from the rear.
The gunmen were said to have
shot sporadically killing the CP and wounding the two policemen but before they
escaped, they reportedly took away the rifle of the orderly whose body was
riddled with bullets.
The State Police Public
Relations Officer, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu confirmed the incident when Vanguard
contacted him yesterday, describing the attack as very unfortunate. He said that
the CP was on a private visit to his home in Enugu when the incident
occurred.
According to him, the police
would do everything possible to fish out the assailants as investigations into
the bizarre incident have already commenced.
So sad. May his soul Rest In Peace.
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