The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has shared insight into the cause of the killing of its officer, Abel Isah, by his senior colleagues, Apata Odunayo and Ogbuji Tochukwu.
News of Isah’s death at the hands of his colleague(s) had earlier made the headlines.
EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, on Tuesday during a press conference at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja acknowledged the report.
While throwing lights on the incident, Uwujaren said, the deceased, a cadet and his supposed killers were attached to Sokoto Zonal Command of the anti-graft commission.
According to the spokesman, a fight ensued between Abel on one side, and the two men on the other side after the deceased refused to sign off on incomplete exhibits seized from a fraud suspect, that was handed over to him.
He was said to have been beaten by Odunayo and Tochukwu and was receiving treatments arising from injuries he sustained in the fight at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, only to died on May 7.
“They had disagreed over procedures for the custody of items belonging to a suspect in detention, leading to a fight, a conduct which the commission frowns at.
“The two officers with whom he disagreed have been suspended by the commission and handed over to the Nigeria police for further investigation and possible prosecution.
“The latest information is that a two-count holding charge bordering on criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide has been filed against them at a Chief Magistrates’ Court, Gwiwa in Sokoto.”
Both offences, Uwujaren said, were punishable under Sections 60 and 191 of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law, 2019.
