A delegation from the Police Force Headquarters in Abuja has arrived in Delta State to assess the level of damages on Police Structures and personnel that occurred during the EndSARS protests across 17 States.
The IG of Police facts finding delegation led by Commissioner of Police Operations, Force Headquarters Abuja, Abutu Yaro, arrived in Delta State to assess the level of damage inflicted on the Police by the hoodlums who hijacked the earlier peaceful End SARS protests.
The team’s first point of call was the Uweifo Community Orthopedic Nursing Home, Ewuru-Agbor, where Sergeant Patrick Okwuone who was shot on the thigh and also had multiple fractures is received treatment.
Next was the home of the late Corporal Stanley Etaga in Ughelli, who was murdered in cold blood at Otovwodo junction, Ughelli-North, by hoodlums who hijacked the EndSARS protests in Delta State.
CP Yaro during the condolence visit to the widow and her four children assured that the Nigerian Police Force, will not abandon the families of officers who lost their lives during the EndSARS Protests.
A relative of the deceased, Edewor Egedegbe, on behalf of the bereaved family, urged the Inspector General of Police delegation, not to see this assignment as the usual fact-finding missions, where nothing was done to alleviate the plights of the deceased families.
In Asaba the Delta State Capital, the delegation visited the “B” Division Outpost razed down by the hoodlums during the protests.
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The high point of the delegation’s mission was the handing over of copies of the written report of the entire incident that transpired and how it affected the State Police Command by the State Commissioner of Police, Hafiz Inuwa.
The delegation is expected to continue its fact- finding mission to Imo State.
Edited by Tunde Orebiyi
