The Kogi State Commissioner of Police, CP Ede Ayuba said the five suspects arrested over the killing of the woman leader of the People...
The Kogi State Commissioner of Police, CP Ede Ayuba said the
five suspects arrested over the killing of the woman leader of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), late Mrs. Salome Acheju Abuh are still in the remand at
the correctional center Kabba.
The Commissioner of Police, who was represented by the officer in charge of legal department of the command, CSP Saidat Musa, stated this during the stakeholders consultative meeting on violence against persons prohibition bill organised by Challenged Parenthood Initiative (CPI) with support from NDI, USAID and UKAID held in Lokoja.
He stated that the five
suspects who were arrested and subsequently paraded by the force are firmly in
the custody at Kabba correctional center. She assures the public that the force
will do everything within her powers to ensure that justice is done.
She added
that the case files of the suspects are with the department stating that they
have been arraigned in court which directed for their remand at the Kabba
correctional centre. “When I took over the department, the first thing I did
was to call for their case files.
Their files are with me and as I am talking
they are in Kabba correctional centre. So, the issue of their bail is a figment
of the imagination of some people. We are determined to see to the logical
conclusion of the matter, and we believe that at the end, justice will be
done,” he assured.
He further explained that the suspects would be delivered
when needed by the Court, assuring that the matter will be pursued to logical
end to serve as a deterrent to other criminals.
Salome Acheju Abuh, a PDP woman leader at Ochadamu ward in
Ofu local government area of Kogi state was brutally set ablaze by some
suspected political thugs in her country home at Ochadamu on November 18, 2019,
two days after the governorship election. Following public outcry and
presidential directive to fish out the killers, the Police swung into action
and arrested five suspects.
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