Two police officers were on Monday killed in Warri, a ghetto town of Delta State.
It was gathered that the two policemen, who were dressed in mufti, were shot dead at the Airport Junction roundabout, at about 1:pm.
According to eyewitnesses, the victims had stopped by the stall of a roadside mobile phone seller to buy a phone when they were attacked.
“The two guys stood over there, pricing phones; all of a sudden, a vehicle pulled up behind them and some guys, about two of them, just came out of the vehicle and opened fire on the two of them.
“The killers zoomed off as soon as they had brought their targets down. It was like they trailed them to that point.
“Initially, everybody scampered away from the whole area on hearing the gun sound, but by the time the tension has gone down and people ran back to the spot, we discovered that one of them was still alive. We later realised that they were mobile policemen because we saw the ID card of the dead victim,” Mr Ahmed, one of the eyewitnesses told the Nation.
Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the Delta State police command, Celestina Kalu (DSP), said the victims were mobile policemen from 27 PMF, Katsina, attached to the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Warri.
Giving the names of the two deceased policemen as Cpl Usman Ango and Cpl Usman Adamu, Kalu described the incident as that of armed robbery, adding that the state’s police command had commenced investigation into the matter.
“Today 9/5/2016, at about 1400hrs, information was received that about three hoodlums had attacked two men near Our Lady High School, by the Airport Road Junction, Warri.
“A team of patrol went to the scene and found one dead at the spot, took photographs and evacuated the corpse to the Central Hospital mortuary, Warri, for autopsy. The second victim was later confirmed dead at the hospital.
“It was later discovered that the two victims were mobile policemen from 27PMF, Katsina, attached to the JTF in Warri. They were identified by the JTF commander as F/No 247552, Cpl Usman Ango and F/No 265569, Cpl uIsman Adamu.
“According to the JTF commander, the two corporals took permission to go and collect money at the bank on mufti, without their arms.
“Investigation is in progress; effort is being made to arrest the fleeing culprits”, she said.
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