COVID-19 lockdown: NSCDC official arrested for allegedly killing motorist in Abia
Okon said that he had directed his men to transfer the NSCDC operative to the state’s police command headquarters in Umuahia for diligent investigation.
DAILY POST that Eke allegedly shot and killed, Amobi Igwe, a transporter at a checkpoint at Umu-Ikea community in the Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area of Abia. “He was supposed to observe the lockdown but because some reverend fathers of the Catholic Church in Aba had ordered consignments of rice for the poor in the church, he decided to come with the load.“Before anybody knew what was happening, he shot Igwe in the head in broad daylight. Igwe’s body has been deposited in the mortuary.”The NSCDC official ran into a police station at Umu-Ikea Junction, after killing Igwe where he was taken into custody in his attempt to escape mob action.
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