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In what will come across as a really tragic development, policemen on a stop-and-search duty on Owerri/ Orlu expressway have allegedly killed Nude Oguzie, who was on his way to Owerri for a wedding reception. The criminal act took place on Saturday in Imo.

An eyewitness told our correspondent in Owerri on Sunday, that the cops fled immediately they realised that they had killed the native of Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State.

According to the eyewitness, the victim was driving in his Toyota Camry when one of the trigger-happy cops shot him for allegedly refusing to stop.

The PUNCH gathered that passers-by took Oguzie to the Federal Medical Center in Owerri, where he was pronounced dead.

When contacted, the Police Spokesperson in the state, Orlando Ikeokwu, confirmed the incident.

Ikeokwu said the three trigger-happy officers had been identified, arrested, and kept in custody.

He said, “The Imo State Police Command has condemned the killing of one Jude Oguzie by operatives attached to the Command, on December 5, along the Njaba/Owerri Road.

“The Command regrets the killing of the deceased under any guise especially now that the force is doing everything within its powers to put an end to incidents of brutality and incivility to members of the public.”