Robbers Kills Police Officer In Abakaliki, Okada Riders Suffers For The Killing

The police said. that the gunmen, who were returning from a robbery operation along Abakaliki-Enugu expressway on a motorbike, started shooting sporadically within a filling station and as a result killed a policeman and wounded several others.

This ugly incident has prompted the Abakaliki police command to transfer aggressions on motorcycle operators. As we speak, there is severe seizure and arrest of motorcycles and riders are prohibited to operate at night or to plight all double lane within Abakaliki urban.
PREMIUM TIMES has it that the Commandant of Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, Ebonyi State Command, Jibril Shyabu, who explained that his wounded staff, a driver, was already at the Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, receiving treatment, described the incident as unfortunate and ugly.
He said his staff sustained both hand and leg injuries resulting from gunshot wounds as he was about to be taken into the theatre for emergency operation to remove the bullets inside his body.
PREMIUM TIMES also reports that the State Commissioner of Police, Peace Ibekwe-Abdallah, confirmed the incident noting that the investigation into the matter has commenced.
She said: “The command is preparing a release on the matter and would make it available to the press soon”