Motor Accident Claims Police Officer In Anambra

An assistant superintendent of police attached to the Anambra State Police Command, Mr Anthony Ogbodo, has been killed in an auto crash.

The late officer died when his motorcycle and a shuttle bus collided on Saturday, 16th September, 2023.

The state police public relations officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed this in a statement.

Ikenga said, “The driver of the shuttle bus who knocked down the officer had conveyed him to the hospital at Enugwu Ukwu before he gave up.

“The driver has been arrested and taken into custody while the fatal accident is being investigated.”

The command however debunked earlier reports attributing the cause of the death ‘to different causes’.

The state police commissioner, CP Aderemi Adeoye, has sent his sympathies to the family and loved ones of the deceased officer. He also assured that ‘justice will be speedily dispensed in the case’.