charge of the Ijede Police Station, Nwaoha Uzoma, has died.
Punch reports that Uzoma’s corpse was found in his office on
Thursday, a day after he entered and locked himself in.
policemen in the station broke into his office, only to find his lifeless body on the
floor.
Uzoma, a Superintendent of Police, was formerly
heading the Anthony Police Division, before he was posted to Ijede, in the
Ikorodu area, early in December.
The deceased, who was married with children,
was in his fifties.
A police source said, “The DPO was posted from Anthony to Ijede around December
5. At that time, he had an illness, which was not very serious. He was a
friendly man who could sometime become angry and that’s when you offend him.
But once he showed his anger and you begged him, he forgave and that would end
it.
“On the day of the incident, he entered his office and shut himself in. People
didn’t suspect anything because he sometimes slept there. People didn’t see him
come out throughout that day and then the next day, they called his phone
repeatedly but he didn’t pick it.
“That was how people became suspicious and broke the door. They found his
corpse on the floor.”
The police were said to have evacuated the corpse and deposited it in a private
mortuary.
Another police source, who claimed to be close to the deceased, told our
correspondent that he saw him few days to his death and he was looking healthy.
He said, “I still saw him at a meeting where he was all smiles and didn’t show
any sign of sickness. I was told he slumped and died in his office.”
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, while
confirming the incident on Sunday, explained that the police had yet to ascertain
the cause of death.
He said, “On December 25, at about 8am, SP Nwaoha Uzoma, was found dead in his
office at the Ijede Police Station. His corpse was removed and deposited at St.
Raphael Hospital morgue for autopsy.