A Deputy Superintendent of Police, Tamuno Jacob
Igbomie, who was Principal Security Officer to
former First Lady, Patience Jonathan, has been shot
dead by unknown assailants.
Igbomie’s corpse was found in his Honda Accord car
last Friday along the Airport Road, Abuja.
The former PSO, who was married with two children,
was believed to have been killed by assassins who
shot him at point-blank range in his car and left the
engine running.
A source said the body of the DSP was found early in
the morning with all his phones, wallet and other
personal effects intact in the car.
“We believe Tamuno was killed by hired assassins
because they did not take away anything in his car,
his phones and wallet were still with him when his
body was found in the car with the engine steaming.
“He was shot in the night and his body was found
early in the morning. We don’t know if he was killed
over a business transaction or disagreement with
someone,” the source who served with the deceased
at the villa stated.
It was gathered that the deceased, who hailed from
Okrika, Bayelsa State, was serving at the Federal
Capital Territory Police Command before he was
deployed to the Presidential Villa as Aide-De-Camp to
Patience when her husband was the Vice President.
He was later appointed as the PSO to Patience when
her husband became the President in 2011.
Findings indicated that the late policemen had just
been redeployed back to his former position at the
FCT Police Command, where he was in charge of
posting of junior officers.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel
Ojukwu, confirmed the killing of the policeman,
noting that investigation has begun to arrest the
assailants.
“Yes, a DSP attached to the villa was killed last week
Friday, investigation has started to find out the
people behind the murder. No arrest has been made
yet,” he said over the telephone on Sunday.
The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Anjuguri
Manzah, said the FCT Commissioner of Police, Wilson
Inalegwu, had ordered an investigation into the tragic
incident.
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