ABIA: "Police Officer that killed someone in Ebem Ohafia was drunk" - Nigerian Police

In a reaction which was signed by Abia State Police Public Relations Officer SP Geoffery Ogbonna and sent to AFNews, he stated that the Police Officers involved in the altercation that led to the killing Ifeanyi Arunsi were drunk.

In equally revealed that the said Police Officer involved in the shooting is already in the police custody.

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PRESS RELEASE
RE SHOOTING INCIDENT AT EBEM OHAFIA BY POLICE :

The Nigeria Police Abia State Command has received with nostalgia the shooting incident in Ebem Ohafia by a Policeman which consumed the life of an innocent young man identified as Ifeanyi Arunsi on Friday 17th April,2020 night.

The Policemen led by an Assistant Superintendent of Police who were neither on duty nor on COVID 19 preventive assignment, went out in a private car belonging to one of them to a drinking joint where they got drunk and while going back home, the driver hit a truck off-loading goods. In an ensuing argument between the Policemen and the people off-loading goods, one of the Policemen, a Constable disappeared from the scene and resurfaced with a Police rifle and started shooting sporadically under the influence of alcohol during which, bullet hit the victim on the buttocks.

This singular act and others of same nature is regrettable, condemnable and not tolerated by both the Nigeria Police Force and its Abia State Command.

The Commissioner of Police Abia State, CP E. Ene Okon commiserates with the immediate and extended families of the deceased as well as the entire Ohafia people.

It is the Commissioner of Police' sordid appeal to the youths and people of Ebem Ohafia to eschew violence and destruction of Police/government property while assuring that justice must be done.

Meanwhile the erring Policemen have been arrested for investigation and eventual prosecution while the corpse of the deceased has been deposited in a yet to be disclosed morgue by members of his family for preservation.

Further developments will be made public while the investigation lasts.
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Signed:
SP GEOFFREY OGBONNA
POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS` OFFICER
FOR: COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
ABIA STATE COMMAND.