PUNCH
A police Inspector, Jonathan Okouromi, was said to have shot dead one Sergeant Abosele Akhere, both of the Edo State Police Command.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident occurred at about 9pm on Sunday, in Ikponwosa/Egban community, Egor Local Government Area of Edo.
Operatives of the Edo State Police Anti-Kidnapping Squad and those of the Control Intelligence Rapid Response Squad had embarked on an operation to apprehend some suspected cultists.
Our correspondent gathered that suspected cultists had been terrorising the said Ikponwosa/Egban community in recent times.
In the course of the operation, a notorious cultist and prime suspect in cult-related activities, who was simply identified as ‘Raggae’ was arrested by Sergeant Abosele Akhere.
“All of a sudden, Inspector Jonathan Okouromi just lifted his gun, pulled the trigger and shot Akhere from the back. Nobody knew what happened or why he did that. He just fired him from behind. The man fell immediately and started bleeding,” a reliable source told PUNCH Metro in a telephone conversation.
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