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  • Police Inspector kills colleague, jumps into well in Ondo

    Tragedy struck at a town in Kajola, Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State as a police officer, identified as Abraham Arowogun, shot dead a colleague then jumped into a deep well in the police station.

    The incident which occurred on Tuesday was said to have baffled his colleagues who were taken unawares by the behaviour of the dead Officer.

    Witnesses said it was a mystery to other police officers at the divisional police station as well as the people of the community.

    A police source said Arowogun never suffered from any mental breakdown.

    According to the source, the deceased, who was an inspector before his death shothis senior colleagues, Timothy Aruehi dead then plunged into the well.

    Arowogun shot Aruehi, who was a Divisional Crime Officer, following a disagreement that ensued between them on the issue of money, it was learnt.

    The source explained, “There was an issue that happened between the two officers. Arowogun was investigating a case and the DCO, Aruehi, discovered that a sum of N150,000 was involved in the case he (Arowogun) was investigating and that Arowogun actually converted that money to his private purse.

    “The DCO called him and asked him questions. Why he did what he did? In the course of interrogating him, he just went out angrily and brought out a gun and shot Timothy dead.”
    The police source added that after killing the DCO, other officers in the station at the time fled for safety.

    “After doing that, he knew that what he did was unprofessional and unpardonable in the police force, he just left the scene jumped into a well at the back of the station,” the source stated.

    The corpses of the two policemen were said to have been deposited at the mortuary in the Ondo State General Hospital, Ore.When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the command, Femi Joseph, confirmed the incident and said the command had commenced an investigation on the matter.

    Contacted by newsmen, the Public Relations Officer of the command, Femi Joseph, has confirmed the incident and said the command had commenced an investigation on the matter.

  • Policeman kills colleague, student over ‘stipend’

    A mobile policeman attached to Zenith Bank, Zaria, on Friday killed his colleague attached to the same bank following disagreement over monthly stipends being given them by the bank.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that quarrel between the policemen, Mathew Joshua, corporal and Aliyu Kamilu, sergeant, ensued following discovery that the sergeant had been short-changing the corporal.

    When Joshua confronted Kamilu on the issue, they started shouting at each other and “the corporal, who is holding-on to his rifle shot at the sergeant in his stomach.

    “After shooting the sergeant, Josua started shouting and shooting sporadically, which eventually led to the killing of a university student,” an eye witness told NAN.

    The eye witness said that four customers of the bank also sustained bullet wounds.

    “When the report of the incident reached their command in Zaria, a team of policemen was immediately mobilised to the area.

    “The policemen met their colleague with two rifles. They had no option than to systematically take position.

    “One of them succeeded in shooting Joshua on the leg, which gave people around the opportunity to descend on him with stones.”

    He said Joshua, the corpses of Kamilu and the student were rushed to Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Shika, Zaria.

    A NAN correspondent who visited ABUTH reports that the hospital authority also confirmed the death of the student and Kamilu.

    A source at the Police Area Command, Zaria, also confirmed the death of Joshua at ABUTH.

    “The Nigeria Police has no case because the two policemen gave-up the ghost.

    “Information coming to us now is that the affected policemen have died, therefore, we have no case.”

    When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Police Command, Kaduna, DSP Aliyu Usman, confirmed the incident.

    He, however, said that he was yet to get details on the matter.