The Kwara State Commissioner of Police (CP); Mr Chinwe Asadu, has been killed by unknown gunmen in Enugu state.
The
Police boss was killed Saturday night at gunpoint in his car at Amorji
Nike, near the densely populated Abakpa Nike area in Enugu East local
government area within the state capital.
The Orderly of the
Commissioner and driver escaped the attack but they sustained gunshot
wounds and they are reported to be in a critical state at the National
Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu.
Reports from the state has it that,
Mr Asadu who was on a visit to Enugu-his state of origin- had a visitor
and he decided to escort the guest in his own vehicle with only his
driver and Orderly coming along with him.
While the trio were
returning to the Commissioner’s residence, they reportedly noticed a bus
trailing their vehicle and as they veered into the street, the gunmen
who must have laid an ambush for the Commissioner a few metres away from
his private residence, started firing at the vehicle from the rear.
It
was during the sporadic shooting that the Mr Asadu was killed on the
spot while the Police Orderly posted to guard the CP’s residence from
Abakpa Police Division, sustained bullet wound all over his body and his
rifle taken away before the gunmen escaped.
The official escort
team that came with the Commissioner from Kwara State Police Command
that were left behind in his compound, got wind of the attack but not
until the gunmen had routed their escape.
They quickly rushed the
Commissioner and his aides who were in a pool of blood to the
Orthopaedic Hospital but it was at the hospital that Police boss was
confirmed dead.
He reportedly gave up the ghost before arriving at the hospital.
His aides who were badly wounded were immediately admitted but they gather that they are in a critical state.
The
State Police Public Relations Officer has confirmed the incident,
adding that “a serious manhunt has started to track down the gunmen
behind CP Asadu’s killing.”
Meanwhile, the Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has described the murder of Mr Asadu as shocking and unfortunate.
A
statement issued by the state government noted that “it is
particularly painful that late CP Asadu has become another index in the
annals of the growing national insecurity, adding that it has become
very expedient for Nigerians to rally round in finding enduring solution
to the national malaise of insecurity.”
The statement described
the death of Mr. Asadu as a huge lose not only to the Nigeria Police
but the Kwara State security apparatus in particular as he exhibited
high sense of discipline and professionalism in the course of duty in
the State.
”Late CP Chinwe Asadu , in the discharge of his duty
in Kwara state contributed immensely to the sustenance of peace in the
state and in the upholding of our values as a state of harmony” the
statement read.
The Governor, who described Late CP Asadu as a
quintessential police officer, prayed to God to grant the family, the
rank and file of the Police in the state and the Nigeria Police, the
fortitude to bear the loss.
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