Police Inspector Hacked To Death In Abia

A Police Inspector was at the weekend killed by unknown hoodlums at Uratta in Osisioma Ngwa Local Government area of Abia state.

This incident is happening 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.

According to sources, the Policeman was going to work on September 14, at about 6:40pm when he saw a man riding a motorcycle; he was alleged to have stopped and impounded the motorcycle for undisclosed area.

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, wielding cutlasses.

The hoodlums were said to have given the Policeman machete cuts all over his body, ripping his skull open in the process.

After killing him, the men whose motive for the attack could not be immediately ascertained, were reported to have made away with the police inspector’s AK 47 rifle.

However, luck was said to have ran out of one of the assailants, when as he was going home after killing the Policeman, noticing some blood stains on his body, some local vigilante members arrested 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.

The Policemen immediately locked him up, telling him he will have to work with them in helping to track the remaining of the fleeing gang members.

When contacted, the command PPRO, Geoffrey Ogbonna said he was not aware of the incident as he had not been briefed.