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Apo six: Senator raises alarm over reinstatement of indicted police commander

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The Senator representing Ebonyi south, Sunny Ogbuoji, on Wednesday raised the alarm over the reinstatement of a Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations at the Federal Capital Territory Command, Danjuma Ibrahim, who was accused of involvement in the murder of six traders over 12 years ago.
Ibrahim was the commander of the police patrol unit implicated in the gruesome killing of the traders in Apo area of the FCT in 2005.
He was accused of conspiring with other police operatives to cause the death of suspects arrested in the Garki Division of FCT.
The incident  led to Ibrahim’s suspension from the police.
He was later arraigned in court over his role in the traders’ murder.
Ogbuoji, who came under Order 43, (Personal explanation), said his personal explanation had to do with the traders’ gruesome murder at a police checkpoint.
He said: “That incident involved Ifeanyi Ozo, Chinedu Meniru, Isaac Ekene, Paulinus Ogbonna, Anthony Nwokike and Augustina Arebun.”
Ogbuoji reminded the Senate that former President Olusegun Obasanjo set up a judicial panel of inquiry because the police report was unacceptable to him when the Force claimed that the victims were armed robbers.
“And in the judicial panel of inquiry, some police officers were found to have killed these young people. “So, they were taken to court by the state.
“The commander of that particular police unit, one Danjuma Ibrahim, as we speak today, has been reinstated by the police.
“Also, one of them, Othman Abdulsalami, till today is said to be at large. But the court on the 12th of last month sentenced two of the police men to death for murder.
“One is worried that the commander of that particular patrol unit that killed what is now known as Apo Six has been reinstated by the police whereas the police has found others who were under his command culpable.
“So, it is generating a lot of tension among the people whose children were killed in cold blood that we the Senate should take interest to find out how come one of the police officers is at large and the police authorities have been unable to trace his whereabouts till today, almost 12 years after.
“Then the one who was found, the police is now saying thank you to him for killing those young people by reinstating and reabsorbing him in the Force.”

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