Police Inspector arrested for alleged murdered widow
Mr Odiko Macdon, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), unveiled this in an announcement made accessible to newsmen in Uyo, on Wednesday.
He said that the police magistrate had trained the Deputy Commissioner, State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID) to do careful examination concerning the issue.
Macdon emphasized the direction's responsibility to policing, with extraordinary arrangement of regard for human rights.
The PPRO said that the choice of the police to at long last investigate the supposed homicide was educated by the reports in certain dailies and online media in the state.
"The consideration of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command has been attracted to productions in certain dailies and online media such that a cop joined to the state police direction, one Insp. Bassey Ikpe, supposedly beat one Mrs Deborah Nkpenie to death, on Jan. 16.
"To validate this genuine claim, CP Imohimi Edgal, the state Commissioner of Police, has requested the quick capture of the said auditor," Macdon said.
An onlooker, who pined for namelessness, said that the episode occurred in the first part of the day of Jan. 16, after the greeting of the perished by the police officer, who was an Investigating Police Officer (IPO) in a progressing case.
Another onlooker, Mrs Mfonobong Peter, a sister to the expired, additionally clarified that the said police officer, who is the IPO in a continuous issue, had by and by entered the room of the perished to strongly dress her up.
She said that the IPO went wild with the claim that the expired was lying about her condition of wellbeing so as to evade being summoned in court.
"My late sister was pounded the life out of by Insp. Bassey Ikpe. He had compromised her over and over since this issue came up.
"My sister had abdomen torments emerging from the separation she had while thinking about her late spouse. This made it hard for her to move about unreservedly.
"She had become practically laid up in view of the trouble in development. She was profoundly hypertensive because of the wellbeing intricacies that prompted her significant other's demise.
"Be that as it may, this cop would not regard the guidance of the Deputy Commissioner of Police. I don't have a clue what individual intrigue he had in the issue.
"He had constrained her to go to the police headquarters with the goal that they could show up in court on an invented criminal allegation, against the guidance of the appointee chief of police the earlier day. He beat my sister to death," she asserted.
NAN additionally reports that the sister and the sibling of the late spouse took the expired to the police over her late husband's property.
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