Drama as DSS Operative Shoots a Policeman in Abuja

 

The Federal Capital Territory Police and the Directorate of State Security (DSS) are yet to agree on action to be taken against the DSS operative that shot a police officer in Gwarinpa on Sunday.

There is a new twist over the incident that happened in front of a police observation post in Gwarinpa as the Divisional Police Officer goofed when he said that the injured police constable has been discharged from the hospital.
The Police Constable, Benedict Ochema, could neither walk nor stand when City News visited him at the male ward of the Gwarinpa General Hospital, Life Camp.

A source at Gwarinpa Police Division told our reporter that the Divisional Police Officer had called an assistant director with the DSS requesting that the suspect, one Adewale Kayode, be brought in for questioning by the police.

The source said the assistant director refused, saying that the suspect was already detained by the SSS and that necessary disciplinary action would be taken. But the divisional police officer was said to have maintained that he should come to the station for his statement.

“After so much pressure, the assistant director told the divisional police officer to send his officers to the DSS office to obtain the suspect’s statement. On getting there, however, the men of the DSS refused the police officers entry. It was after several calls were made that they were later allowed to obtain the statement from an office in the DSS,” it said.

When the division police officer, Chief Superintendent Afolabi Wilfred, was contacted he said that the suspect has been arrested by the State Security Services.

The DPO also said that the police constable has been discharged from hospital and commended the SSS for offsetting his medical bills.

But when City News visited the male ward of Gwarinpa General Hospital, the constable was met still on his sick bed.
 “The constable feels humiliated, sad, abandoned and didn’t know that the police could treat him the way they have,” a nurse in the hospital told our reporter.

The FCT Police Spokesperson, Assistant Superintendent Anjuguri Manzah, declined to speak on the matter.