In Akwa Ibom, Policeman Allegedly Kills Sick Woman
A police officer, Mr. Bassey Peter Ikpe attached to the Akwa
Ibom State Police Command has allegedly killed a sick woman, Mrs. Deborah
Nkereuwem Nkpenie, in Akwa-Ibom State, Nigeria.
According to Johnson Ntia who shared the sad news on social
media, the incident happened on Thursday 16th January, 2020.
In the series of post made on Twitter on Monday 20th
January, 2020, Mr. Johnson wrote:
"A police personnel attached to the Akwa Ibom State
Police Command, Mr. Bassey Peter Ikpe (an Inspector of police) reportedly beat
up Mrs. Deborah Nkereuwem Nkpenie (whose photograph appears here) to death on
Thursday, 16th of January, 2020.
"The incident which occurred in the morning of this
fateful day following the invitation which was premised on threats to the
deceased by the policeman, was actually against the wise counsel of a senior
police officer, the Deputy Commissioner of police in charge of the State
Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department of the state command.
"According to Ukpono Sunday Umoren, the Keke driver who
saw what happened within the confines of the State Headquarters of the State
Police Command, "the police man came approached my Keke which bore the
woman. He shouted at her that she was lying about her sickness.
"He made efforts to drag her out. In anger, he knocked
her head by the side rail of the keke. The woman was screaming that, she not
well. "She began to suffocate, and found it difficult to breath. The
police man kept insisting that she was lying. He even told her that, if she
wants to die, she should die. "As she was screaming, the police man was
trying to pull her out of the Keke, her voice grew faint.
"We were begging the police man to refrain from his
hostile act towards the deceased. He ever refused us taking her to hospital. It
was after she breathed her last, that he eventually ordered that she should be
taken to the hospital."
"The Deputy Commissioner, Mrs. S. U. Horsefall, a
Lawyer, had advised against unprofessional conduct by the said Inspector Bassey
Peter Ikpe, including not bringing the both parties before the DC for interview
before arraigning in court."
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