The dust raised by the activities of politicians in Imo State is yet to settle as the death of a policeman in company of a top politician in the state (names withheld) has sparked fresh row.
Trumpeta learnt that during the conduct of the April 11 Governorship and House of Assembly elections, a serving police officer in company of the politician from Mbano area of the state was allegedly shot on the leg by a security aide accompanying military commander in charge of security in the area during the elections.
This newspaper gathered that the politician who recently ruffled feathers in the political hemisphere of the state is in troubled waters following the death of the policeman who died as a result of gunshots said to have been fired at him by a military team on election monitoring duty.
Sources disclosed that the military team on patrol stumbled onto the convoy of the powerful politician around Isiala Mbano LGA on election day on stop and search exercise. In the process, the military team comprising ranking officers were said to be irked by some sensitive election items in their custody alongside uniformed men. One of the uniformed men in police attire was alleged to have opened a canister when confronted by the military team before gunshot was fired at his leg leading to a pool of blood. While the rest of the uniformed men said to be of the police, numbering seven, were arrested, it was gathered that men of State Security Services (SSS), who ran into the scene facilitated the rescue of the shot policeman to the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Owerri, where he died days later.
Further details revealed that the deceased policeman and others arrested in company of the political kingpin are not serving in the state command as it was learnt that they were from Abia and Edo commands.
While investigations continue on the circumstances surrounding the matter, the top politician is said to have gone underground to avoid links with the sad incident.
