A Police personnel attached to the Akwa Ibom State Police Command, MR BASSEY PETER IKPE (an Inspector of police) reportedly beat up MRS DEBORAH NKEREUWEM NKPENIE to death, the event happened on Thursday, 16th of January, 2020 according to reports.
According to UKPONO SUNDAY UMOREN, a tricycle operator popularly called “Keke” who saw what happened within the confines of the State Headquarters of the State Police Command, “the policeman came approached my Keke which bore the woman. He shouted at her that she was lying about her sickness.
“He made efforts to drag her out. In anger, he knocked her head by the side rail of the Keke.
“The woman was screaming that she is not well.
“She began to suffocate and found it difficult to breathe.
“The policeman kept insisting that she was lying. He even told her that, if she wants to die, she should die.
“As she was screaming, the policeman was trying to pull her out of the Keke, her voice grew faint.
“We were begging the policeman to refrain from his hostile act towards the deceased. He ever refused us taking her to hospital. It was after she breathed her last, that he eventually ordered that she should be taken to the hospital” UMOREN said.
