A grieving mother, Mrs Dorcas Nwakor, has accused three policemen attached to the Area Command in Onitsha, Anambra State of killing her only son, Chibueze Nwakor.
The mother of the deceased, a resident of Haruna Street, Odoakpu by Sokoto Road in the Onitsha part of the state, petitioned the acting Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, over the incident.
According to Dorcas, on October 13, 2023, Chibueze, a father of three, was shot dead by the policemen around his residence, while he was going to his place of business.
The bereaved mother, through her lawyer, Anayo Emejue and Associates, told the IGP that the policemen killed her son without any provocation by three policemen.
“It is our client’s instruction that on October 13, 2023, at Onitsha, Anambra State, a team of three policemen shot their son, husband and brother, Mr Chibueze Nwakor, to death for no justifiable reason,” the petition read in part.
The petitioners described the development as a wilful murder of a citizen without any justification or provocation.
Briefing journalists in his office on Monday, the counsel for the family, Anayo Emejue, said, “We were told that the three policemen involved in the killing have been detained at the police headquarters in Awka, but when we got to Awka, we saw them moving freely on the streets.
“This was a father of three who hailed from Owerre-Ezukala, Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State, but he lived with his family at No. 15F Haruna St. close to Sokoto Road junction.
Meanwhile, suspected bandits have killed a local hunter and two commercial drivers in the Kaduna-Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna State.
Shehu Randagi, a resident of Birnin Gwari and a relative of one of the victims, named the hunter as Bashir Unguwar Shekarau and the two commercial drivers, whose vehicles came under heavy attack from the bandits as Mustapha Adamu and Malam Muktar.
He added that a teacher was also killed by the suspected bandits.
The two commercial drivers were returning to Birnin Gwari around 3:30 pm on Saturday when the bandits opened fire on their vehicles.
It was learnt that another driver, who lost his sight after he was hit in the face by a bullet, was receiving treatment at Birnin Gwari Hospital.
“Our hunters were attacked, resulting in the death of one on Wednesday. That was before the Saturday attack that claimed the lives of two commercial drivers along the highway,” he said.
According to him, the other three injured individuals, including Auwal Stable, the driver who lost his eye, were receiving treatment in the hospital.