The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr. Olatunji Disu, has recommended the dismissal and prosecution of officers linked to the fatal shooting of Mene Ogidi in the Effurun area of Delta.
At a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja, the IGP described the April 26 incident as a “criminal and unprofessional” act exhibited by the affected officers, including Nuhu Usman, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), and five other team members.
The IGP who ordered the immediate transfer of the officers involved to Abuja to face the Force Disciplinary Committee (FDC) and an Orderly Room Tribunal, which were already in session, said their act betrayed the fundamental oath of the Nigeria Police Force.
The IGP further said the recommendations had been forwarded to the Police Service Commission (PSC) for final constitutional ratification.
“The investigation confirmed, without any ambiguity, that ASP Nuhu Usman acted in gross violation of Force Order 237 (which governs the use of firearms) and established Standard Operating Procedures.
“No level of criminal suspicion against a citizen justifies extra-judicial killing. Our duty is to protect life, not to extinguish it,” he said.
Disu also said that the FDC and Orderly Room Tribunal had recommended the immediate dismissal of Usman, two superintendents, and three Inspectors involved.
He said that once dismissed, the officers would be handed over to judicial authorities to face charges for unlawful homicide.
Disu, while extending his condolences to the family of the deceased and pledging that justice would be swift, transparent, and absolute, urged citizens to refrain from taking the law into their own hands and to maintain calm in Delta State and across the nation.
“Justice for Mene Ogidi will be swift, transparent, and absolute,” he promised.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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