The alleged suicide committed by a late Assistant Commissioner of Police, Christopher Osakwe, who died two weeks ago, has continued to attract controversy. Osakwe, who was recently posted to Edo State, was said to have shot himself in the temple with his service pistol inside his residence, along Upper Sakponba Road on Wednesday, December 28, 2016.
The deceased officer was said to have sent a woman and a little boy living with him on an errand before committing the fatal act. The nature of the errand was not immediately known, but sources said it might have been a ploy to get the duo out of the house for him to carry out his own sucide.
This was just as the woman and the boy, whose identities were not immediately known, were arrested and detained by the police, before their eventual release. The Point was informed that the late police officer was in charge of training and development while serving in Ondo State before he was transferred to Edo State recently.
A police source, however, thinks that the late ACP might have been uder a spell. The source, who spoke unofficially to The Point, said, “The man was supposed to have submitted his service pistol, officially, before leaving Ondo State, but he did not.
“He was said to have been maltreating people and detaining them without clear charges, which might have led to some people placing a curse on him.” A source had disclosed that a gunshot from the residence of the deceased officer was heard at about 5.15 p.m. on the day of the incident.
Alerted, policemen from the Ugbekun Police Division were said to have later visited the deceased’s residence, where he had reportedly hosted some youths in the area on December 25. But while the family of the deceased officer awaits autopsy report on his death, the state’s Commissioner of Police, Haliru Gwandu, described the senior police officer’s death as a shocking. Gwandu added that the incident was a matter bearing on suicide.
The state police commissioner stated that the pistol which the officer reportedly used to kill himself was signed for at the Ondo State Police command before his recent posting to Edo State.
