BENIN CITY-Angry mob has set ablaze the residence of a police officer alleged to have ordered the arrest and torture which occasioned the death of his tenant in Benin City, yesterday.
The embattled policeman was identified as SP Austin Ehiziegbe, serving at the office of the state commissioner of police, command headquarters, Benin.
Contacted, in a swift response the Commissioner of Police, Edo State CP Johnson Kokumo said “I don’t have any orderly call Austin. In fact, I am not in the picture”.
The deceased, Glory Imarogie a professional tailor was living with his father who rented a flat in the policeman’s house.
His bereaved father Joseph Imarogie a retired police officer stated that an altercation which ensued between his children and the policeman his landlord, during a birthday party of his granddaughter resulted in the arrest, detention and torture of the deceased and his brother.
He alleged that his policeman landlord invited his colleagues who stormed the party and whisked his two children to the state police command headquarters where they were detained, tortured till they were granted bail last Friday, April 20, 2018.
It was further alleged that the boy was after granted bail admitted in an hospital when his health was observed to deteriorated greatly.
The news of his death which filtered into the area yesterday morning triggered a mob action at the residence of the policeman.
Tick smoke billowed from the policeman’s apartment in the two flat building on Evbuomoma Road, Off Sapele Road, Benin City about 11am, yesterday, Tuesday, April 24, 2018.
Furniture, electronics and other household property were not spared by the inferno.
The attackers had left the scene before the arrival of some policemen said to be operatives of the state police command headquarters in Benin City.
