Two security operatives involved in Saturday’s shooting of
two officials of Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, in Aba .
have been arrested and detained.
According to source – vanguard
Mr. Geofrey Ogbonna The spokesman of the Command, who made
the announcement yesterday in Umuahia, however, declined to disclose the
identities of the operatives.
Ogbonna said the Command condemned the ‘dastardly act’ and
gave assurance that there will be fairness and justice at the end of the
investigation. Meanwhile, Abia Sector Command of the FRSC has declined to
comment on the matter. However, a source at the Command disclosed, on condition
of anonymity, that one of the victims had a pellet lodged in a sensitive part
of his waist.
According to the source, “he was booked for surgery for the
removal of the pellet but we learned this morning (yesterday) that the surgery
could no longer go on.
“Doctors said that surgery could cause him permanent disability
and that it will be better to manage his condition with the pellet in his body.”
The FRSC officials were shot on Saturday by the security
aides attached to the Speaker of Abia Assembly, Mr. Chikwendu Kalu. The
incident took place at Arungwa Junction, near Aba ,
on the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, when the officials stopped the vehicle
conveying the Speaker’s wife, Victoria, to Aba .
The officials wanted to book the vehicle as its occupants did not wear seat
belts. The Speaker told newsmen on Sunday he sent his chief detail to the
place, but was surprised to hear later that there was shooting. Kanu, who
condemned the shooting, described it as an act of “over-zealousness” by
security operatives.
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