The Police has caught the alleged mastermind of the murder of a deceased police commissioner following his attempt to brag his way out of detention after a street brawl.
The late police commissioner, Mr Chinweike Asadu, was killed at his residence in Enugu on March 2, 2013, at a time when he headed the Kwara state police command.
He was said to be heading to the Rivers state capital, Port-Harcourt, when he was shot dead by suspected robbers.
The six suspects arrested after the incident reportedly claimed that their leader was on the run. Policemen trailed him to Onitsha in Anambra state but he again escaped after a gun duel.
Luck, however, ran out of the leader identified simply as Somtochukwu over the weekend.
Somtochukwu was said to have been engaged in a bloody brawl at a popular motor park with two others. Officers from the Central Police Station in Enugu responded to emergency calls and arrested all concerned parties.
According to Vanguard, Somtochukwu reportedly tried to buy his freedom by claiming he is the son of a policeman and thereby flashed an identity card bearing the name of the dead Commissioner of Police.
The card aroused the interest of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), who reportedly hails from the same area as the late Asadu. One of the children of the deceased police commissioner who was quickly invited by the police, also revealed that the identity card was in her father’s briefcase the day he was killed.
The DPO alerted the state Commissioner of Police, Dan Mallam, about the development, who in turn informed the Inspector-General of Police, Idris Ibrahim.
The suspects have now been transferred to the State Criminal Investigations Department (CIID), where detectives are interrogating them.
Enugu State police spokesman, Ebere Amaraizu, is quoted by Vanguard to have said: “We have such a case, but I cannot give you the details now.
“The effort was part of the mandate given by the new Commissioner of Police, Dan Mallam, that all such unresolved cases must be properly investigated with a view to bringing the perpetrators to book.”
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