SAN FRANCISCO, June 16, (THEWILL) – The Commissioner of Police in Imo state, Chris Ezike, said he has recommended posthumous promotion for the two police officers who died while repelling a robbery attack on a Zenith bank branch in the state.
Ezike revealed that another policeman, Mr Otu Attang, who survived the Feb. 22, 2017 attack, would also be promoted with the deceased officers, Chukwudi Iboko and Sunday Agbo.
The commissioner also said that the management of the bank had undertaken to offer a scholarship to the children of the deceased officers.
THEWILL recalls that four armed men on that day trailed a man to a the bank in Owerri, and in the process, attacked police officers attached to the bank.
In the gun battle that ensued, the policemen killed one of the robbers identified as Ikechukwu Okpara but lost Iboko and Agbo.
Ezike said that the recommendation followed the huge sacrifice the three officers made to save the bank and its customers.
“The officers were gallant and showed serious commitment during the robbery attack. Nigeria Police Force cannot abandon them,” he said.
He said that three of the suspected armed robbers, Justice Ogbonna, Abiye Charles and Okechukwu Nwanegbo, who attacked the bank, had been arrested, adding that different types of arms were recovered from them.
