Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, on Thursday, paid
condolence visits to families of some of the police officers who were attacked
by yet-to-be-identified gunmen, at checkpoints in Obeagu-Amechi, Enugu South
Local Government Area and Amagunze, Nkanu East LGA, residing at the suburb of
Ugbo-Odogwu, Trans Ekulu and Edward Nnaji Street, Abakpa Nike, in Enugu East
LGA.
The grief-stricken governor, who condoled with the families
offered automatic employment to the wives of the deceased, paid three months
salaries of their late husbands including other cash donations.
Gov. Ugwuanyi announced that the condolence package is
applicable to wives of other affected officers, adding that the spouses also
have the option of scholarship of their children to secondary school level in
place of automatic employment.
At the Ugbo-Odogwu residence of late Inspector Timothy Tion,
an indigene of Benue State, Gov. Ugwuanyi consoled the wife, Okuma Janet,
offered her automatic employment, gave her three-month salaries of her husband
with other cash donations.
The governor, who was accompanied by a team of senior police
officers led by the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of State
Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (CIID), ACP Fidelis Ogarabe,
prayed for the repose of the souls of Inspector Tion and other victims,
assuring that their death will not be in vain.
At Edward Nnaji Street, Abakpa, Gov. Ugwuanyi met with the
father and siblings of one of the slain police officers, Inspector Emeka Nnaji,
from Owo in Nkanu East LGA, and consoled them.
He equally offered automatic employment to the wife of the
deceased, Mrs. Nwadi Nnaji, who was at his husband’s residence at Agbani, and
announced the same amount of money with other packages for her.
Responding, the wife of late Inspector Tion, Janet, thanked
Gov. Ugwuanyi for his kindness in coming to console them, and for offering her
automatic employment.
The aged father of late Inspector Nnaji, Mr. Christian
Nnaji, also thanked the governor for the rare gesture and asked God to continue
to bless him.
The Enugu State Command of the Nigeria Police Force, in a
statement by its Public Relations Officer, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, had disclosed
that “preliminary investigations have commenced”.
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