IG Orders Investigation into Shooting of FRSC Officers

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IG Orders Investigation into Shooting of FRSC Officers


The Inspector General of Police (IG), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the Abia State Police Command to commence investigation into the circumstances surrounding the shooting of two officers of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC).
The state Commissioner of Police Mr. Leye Oyebade, made this known on Monday while speaking with journalists over the shooting incident involving a policeman attached to the Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Hon Chikwendu Kalu.

Oyebade said he was already implementing the directive from the IG as a team of police investigators has been assigned to unravel what really happened at the scene of the incident to have warranted the shooting of the officers.
He vowed that whoever was found culpable at the end of investigations would be made to face the wrath of the law.
The FRSC officers who sustained gunshot wounds are still receiving medical attention in an undisclosed hospital. It was gathered that the operation earlier scheduled to be carried out on one of them to extract bullet pellets has been called off on the ground that such procedure would paralyse the victim.

Meanwhile the state Speaker has denied any involvement in the shooting incidence, saying he never gave any order for anybody to be shot.


Addressing journalists at Umuahia, Kalu said from his wife’s account, she was travelling to Aba with her chief detail and a friend when they were “accosted aggressively” by FRSC officers at a checkpoint at the Arungwa junction of the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway.
He vehemently denied ordering the shooting of the FRSC men, saying he was at his lodge in Umuahia receiving a visitor when he received a “distress call” over the incident and his own chief detail went to find out what was happening.

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