Asaba youths have protested against the alleged murder of a businessman by a police inspector, Obi Abri, assigned to Asaba Area Command, on Wednesday.
The deceased, Ibe Emmanuel Onyeka, 30, was allegedly shot dead after refusing to give out N100 at a checkpoint in the Ugbolu region.
After an argument with the police officer over the money, the late Onyeka, a phone vendor at the well-known Ogbogonogo Market, was reportedly shot in the head at close range.
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According to one Kester, “They killed the businessman in the presence of his newly pregnant wife. He is an international businessman with eight shops. They killed him for N100.00. They asked him to stop and he stopped. He is not a Yahoo boy, he sells phones.”
Another colleague of the deceased, Obi, called for justice for Onyeka.
However, Inspector Abri, the man accused of killing the businessman, asserted that no one had demanded money from him; rather, he had simply declined to stop for a check.
Inspector Abri said, “We were five in number. I feel very bad because this was not intentional,” Abri said.
He added: “This afternoon, we embarked on patrol of Illah road, where we were doing stop and search. I heard a voice from about 15 kilometres, ‘hold him, hold him’. Before. I could turn, the young man used his left hand to hold the nozzle of my rifle, and said, ‘I will kill you and go with your rifle’.
Before I could turn to drag it with him, my belt entered the trigger and it fired. It was not intentional if he had not touched the nozzle of the gun, it would not have happened.
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In the meantime, the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ari Mohammed Alli, who was held hostage for hours by protesters at the police headquarters, said the suspected killer of the businessman has been arrested.
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