Tragedy as three armed men reportedly killed a police inspector at Uratta in Osisioma Ngwa Local Government Area of the state.
This is coming barely one week after a police Inspector and four of his colleagues were killed at Okagwe Ohafia in Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State.
WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that the policeman simply identified as Emma was recently transferred from Umuahia to Aba about two months ago and
posted to Uratta police station.
A source told newsmen that the slain policeman was going to work last Friday around 8.00pm when he saw a man riding a motorcycle; he was alleged to have stopped and impounded the machine for undisclosed reason.
The source said the police inspector was riding on the motorcycle to his office, Uratta police station, when on approaching Uratta Road by Chief Obi Street, he was attacked by three armed men.
The hoodlums were said to have given the policeman machete cuts all over his body, ripping his skull open in the process.
According to report, the men of the under world whose motive for the attack could not be immediately ascertained after killing the policeman made away with the police inspector’s AK 47 rifle.
One of the assailants met his waterloo when he was going home and some local vigilante members nabbed him after noticing some blood stains on his body and later handed him over to the police.
It was gathered that during interrogation, the suspect admitted being involved in the killing of the policeman and he is helping police in tracking the remaining of the fleeing gang members.
Police from command headquarters, Umuahia were said to have in the
early hours of yesterday raided a popular brothel within the Uratta axis of the commercial city in search of the fleeing hoodlums, but no arrests were said to have been made.
When contacted, the command PPRO, Geoffrey Ogbonna said he was not
aware of the incident as he had not been briefed.
