Hell in Abuja! Police Officer Killed as El-Zakzakky Protest Turns Violent

• IGP Decries Incident, Says Enough is Enough

All hell was let loose in Abuja, the nation’s capital, Monday, as a protest by members of the El-Zakzakky group turned violent, leaving a Deputy Superintendent of Police dead and many others injured.

According to an account by the Force Public Relations Officer, FPRO, Frank Mba, a deputy commissioner of police, DCP, the group unleashed hell at about 12:30pm within the Central Business District of federal capital.

Describing the protesting throng as “heavily armed protesters”, he said the group defied “all sense of decency” and “violently attacked innocent citizens and police personnel on duty.”

In the process, he continued, the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations, FCT Command, DCP Usman A.K Umar, was shot and fatally injured by the protesters.

Umar, Mba further informed, died moments while receiving treatment in hospital.

That’s not all. Mba also revealed that two assistant superintendents of police and a staff of Channels Television, sustained serious injuries and are currently receiving treatment.

The violent protesters, he said, also razed a National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Response Post close to the Federal Secretariat, Abuja, and two vehicles.

The Force PRO also confirmed that the police have arrested 54 suspects in connection with the incidents. They are “undergoing interrogation and will be arraigned in court as soon as possible”.

Meanwhile, the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, has commiserated with the family of the late DCP Umar, and condemned the killing. He also warned “Enough is enough as the Force and the nation at large will not continue to suffer losses on account of reckless and lawless persons and groups in the society.”