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From Okey Sampson, Umuahia
A man in his mid 60s, Ndubuisi Paul Anyim from Ndielu, Ugwueke in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State, has cried foul over the reported escape of a cop, who allegedly shot and killed his son, from the police custody.
Anyim, addressing newsmen in Umuahia amid tears, narrated that he travelled to his village in April for the Easter holidays with his children. While in the village, his first son, Obinna Elijah Anyim, 35, in company of his siblings, on April 20, went to a hotel for an event. Outside the hotel premises, Obinna heard the cry of a baby inside a car with tinted classes parked in the area. Out of compassion, he (his son) went closer to the car and knocked on the door of the car to find out what was wrong with the baby.
According to Anyim, a policeman who was attached to the RRS, Aba, sitting inside the car, pulled his gun and shot Obinna on the leg without uttering a word. While pleading innocence for his action, the policeman shot him again on the chest and died instantly.
The deceased father said he wrote a petition to the police authorities in the state, detailing what happened, but that it took the police several months to get the suspect arrested.
Anyim said he was later informed that the suspect had been arrested and detained at the SCID, Umuahia and later transferred to the anti kidnapping cell, Command headquarters, from where he would face orderly room trial. His words: “The day they said the orderly room trial would hold, I went to the police headquarters, but they said it had been postponed.
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“They kept telling me stories until I went there with my lawyer. The Commissioner of Police unbelievably told me that the killer cop had escaped from the police custody.”
Anyim who said he suspected foul play in the reported escape of the killer cop, wondered why he was the only suspect that escaped from the anti kidnapping cell at the command headquarters. “There is no doubt whether the said policeman committed the offence or not as before now, he has come to beg me and my people with his own people, even with their traditional ruler,” he added.
Although the Commissioner of Police had promised to do everything possible to re-arrest the fleeing cop, Anyim is making passionate appeal to all men of goodwill to ensure that justice is served in the matter.
Anyim’s counsel, Perfect Okorie, said it was unfortunate that it was only the policeman that was said to have escaped from such well fortified cell.
Efforts to get police side of the story failed, as the command’s PPRO, Maureen Chinaka, could not respond to the text message sent to her phone.
