CP ASADU WAS TOP CONTENDER FOR VILLAGE STOOL

The Commissioner of Police, Kwara State Command, Mr. Chinweike Asadu, who was killed on Saturday night, would have retired in three months time.

The late CP  was a leading contender to the vacant throne in his village and it was further alleged that some people did not want him to succeed to the throne.

But the Enugu State Governor Sullivan Chime has pledged a N10million reward for anybody who could give information on the killers of Asadu.

Chime announced the reward yesterday when he paid an unscheduled condolence visit at the Amorji-Nike home of the slain commissioner.

The governor also urged the police to ensure that the perpetrators of the crime were arrested and brought to book.

He was accompanied on the visit by top government officials as well as the Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command.

Chime promised that the government would beef up security in the state with the provision of more patrol vans and communication gadgets.

Asking the family of the slain CP to take heart and bear the loss with fortitude, the governor assured them that the state government would ensure that their bread winner did not serve the country in vain.

Late Asadu’s son, Osinachi who received the governor and his entourage, thanked the governor for the visit and his kind words.

He promised the governor that the family would on its part cooperate in the endeavour to arrest the killers of their father.

Meanwhile, Chime has said the State would provide all necessary assistance to security agencies in the country to ensure that the killers of the police chief were tracked down and brought to book.

In a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Chukwudi Achife, the governor described the murder of the Police Chief, last weekend in Enugu, as shocking and dastardly and added that no effort would be spared to fish out the culprits.

Chime lamented that Mr Asadu, who was an indigene of Enugu State, suffered such a cruel fate after many years of dedicated service to the nation. He added that the development was even more disheartening as Mr Asadu was close to retirement from service when he was murdered.

Governor Chime extended his condolences to the Inspector General of Police, the family of the deceased Police Commissioner and the government and people of Kwara State assuring them that the people of Enugu state shared their grief and outrage over the unfortunate incident.

Meanwhile, prominent men from Amukwa, the community of slain Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Chinwike Asadau have appealed to law enforcement agencies to unravel the mystery surrounding the brutal murder of their kinsman.

Also, some residents of Nsukka in Enugu State have condemned the murder of Mr Chinwike Asadu, the Commissioner of Police in Kwara buy gunmen in Enugu.

They urged security agents in separate in interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on in Nsukka on Monday to fish out the killers.

A lecturer in University of Nigeria Nsukka, Mr George Okeagu, said that the murder of Asadu in Enugu state had once again shown the level of insecurity in the country.

“The security agents should ensure that the killers of the police commissioner were arrested and prosecuted. It is painful that Asadu was assassinated in Enugu, his home state.

“If a police commissioner can be killed by unknown gunmen, only God can protect ordinary Nigerians on the street,’’ he said.

Meanwhile, officers and men of the Kwara state police command, yesterday in Ilorin ,  observed a one-minute silence in honour of the Asadu.

This development came just as a social critic, Alhaji  Olola Kasum, lamented that Asadu’s killing has exposed the high water point and sophistication of insecurity in the country.

Kasum in a statement titled “National security: Dogs kill lions with impunity” noted that “insecurity of life has descended so low in our society to the extent that dogs are now killing lions with impunity”.

He suggested that the manhunt for Asadu’s killers “should start from the recent senior police officers postings, some of which were later reviewed; including that of Kwara state.”

Also, the Kwara state Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), has condemned the killing of the police commissioner.

Source: Leadership