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CP Abubakar Lawal, Enugu State Commissioner of Police

Police investigate lifeless body dumped on Enugu road; Orders investigation into missing female Officer  

By Stanley Nwanosike

Enugu, Oct. 11, 2021

The Police Command in Enugu State says it has started investigation into the alleged murder of Stephen Ajah in Nkanu West Local Government Area of the state.

The Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, in a statement issued to journalists in Enugu, said that the lifeless body of Ajah was found on the Ozalla-Agbani Road in the early hours of Monday.

He said: “There was a reported case of murder of a young man identified as Stephen Ajah, along Ozalla-Agbani Road in Nkanu West Local Government Area by yet-to-be identified armed men.

“The lifeless body of the said young man was rushed to the hospital by police operatives, where he was confirmed dead by a doctor on duty and his corpse deposited in the mortuary for preservation and autopsy”.

Ndukwe said that the command has launched investigation with a view to apprehend the perpetrators of the homicide.

 Meanwhile, the Police Command in Enugu State has ordered intensive investigation into a missing female officer during an attack on its Divisional Headquarters in Umulokpa, Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area in Enugu State by unidentified gun men.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the divisional headquarters was attacked Oct. 9 by yet-to-be identified hoodlums who vandalised operational vehicles and other items in the station.

NAN recalls that some police personnel on Oct. 8 repelled an attack on Ezeagu Police Divisional Headquarters in the state, while a police officer sustained bullet injury as police personnel and hoodlums exchanged gunfire.

ASP Ndukwe, who confirmed the attack in a statement on Monday in Enugu to NAN, said the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Lawal Abubakar, had ordered a full-scale investigation into the matter.

Ndukwe said that the commissioner also ordered a manhunt for abductors of the missing female police officer.

“The Commissioner has ordered the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) and tactical teams of the Command to intensify ongoing investigation to locate a missing female personnel.

“They are to fish out the yet-to-be identified hoodlums, who in their numbers, attacked and vandalized vehicles and other items at the police divisional headquarters,” he said.

The police spokesman said that the state police boss gave the order after leading a team of senior police officers and commanders of the Command’s tactical/operational teams to the scene.

Ndukwe, however, appealed to residents to assist the Command with credible information that would lead to the location of the said missing officer and arrest of the assailants.

“Such information/intelligence, which will be treated confidentially, can be sent through email:contact042ppro@gmail.com or by calling 08032003702 or 08075390883,” he said.

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