APOSTLE SULEMAN ATTACK: AUCHI DPO RECALLED OVER ALLEGED KILLING OF SUSPECT CAUGHT ALIVE
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By Adeola Abdullah
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of the Auchi Police Station has been recalled over the alleged killing of a suspect arrested by local vigilantes in connection with the failed assasination attempt on popular pastor, Apostle Johnson Suleman
The Commissioner of Police in Edo state, Abutu Yaro ordered the recall of the DPO; CSP Ayodele Suleiman based on the alleged killing of one of the suspects who was arrested alive by the local vigilantes and handed over to the police.
The police confirmed the killing of six persons and declared one person missing in the attack on the convoy of Suleman near Auchi on his way from Benin City after arriving from Tanzania on a foreign mission.
A two-paragraph statement signed by the Deputy Spokesperson of the Edo State Police Command, reacting to the development, Jennifer Iwegbu, an ASP titled: “Outgoing CP, Now AIG Abutu Yaro FDC Orders the Interrogation of CSP Ayodele Suleiman, DPO Auchi”, reads:
“As part of the measures of the Command concerning the circumstances that led to the death of one of the surviving members of the monstrous gang that attacked the convoy of Apostle Johnson Suleiman, General overseer of Omega Fire Ministry, the outgoing CP now AIG Abutu Yaro fdc has ordered the withdrawal of CSP Ayodele Suleiman, DPO Auchi for debriefing at the State Headquarters with immediate effect.
“Meanwhile, members of the Public are urged to remain calm and patient as no stone would be left unturned to unearth the circumstances surrounding it”.
A twit by Suleman when the information that the suspect was handed over to the police alive surfaced said “Lies, they weren’t kidnappers. He was caught and handed over and the police killed him immediately. Why? Why killing him on the spot? Who is trying to cover up traces?”, Suleiman queried.
Also, the Ministry’s legal adviser, Sam Amune said in a text to newsmen said “This country is in a mess. It’s not balance. No security anywhere. Security system greatly compromised.
One of the assassins was arrested by vigilante, handed over to the police. The police immediately shot him dead. Why will they do that? Are they trying to cover up traces…..we will get to the root of the matter”
Suleman late Friday night said that the attack was an assassination attempt on his life, had traced his travails to the 2017 scandals directed at his person, stressing that having survived the smear campaigns, his traducers, he claimed he would not be named, resorted to the assassination.
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