Lawyer lodges petition with Delta CP concerning police officer’s attempted murder of client

The Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Wale Abass, has been urged to look into the assault on his client, Mr. Victor Igbekele, by one Inspector Prince by Warri-based attorney Chief Robinson Ariyo.

The request was made by Ariyo in a petition sent to the CP.

Recall that on December 5, 2023, at Ekrerhavwe Junction on the East-West portion of Ughelli Road, police shot and injured the aforementioned Igbekele.

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Just as he was assuring the public of justice, the Delta State CP swiftly intervened and ordered the erring officer’s immediate detention.

Ariyo said in the petition he sent to the CP that Igbekele was stopped by police at a roadblock while going from Warri to Ughelli.

He added that after turning in his vehicle and surrendering himself for examination, his client was given permission to continue travelling.

But, as soon as our client started travelling again after receiving the necessary authorization, he was once more stopped a short distance from the starting point by a different member of the same patrol team, whose name our client knows to be Inspector Prince;

“Our client desperately tried to tell the said Inspector Prince that our client had already undergone a thorough stop and check exercise by his colleagues who were only inches away, but it was in vain. Inspector Prince became enraged and launched an assault, shooting our client multiple times, injuring our client’s knee and abdomen in addition to causing various damages to our client’s vehicle during the assault.

As a result of the development, our client was hurried to the Central Hospital in Ughelli right away. There, the medical staff assessed the severity of the injury our client had sustained and referred him to a specialised private clinic, where he is still receiving treatment.

“Our client is currently having a number of medical operations, including surgery in the abdomen and other portions of his body, as a result of Inspector Prince’s vicious attack, which was uninvited and occurred under the circumstances previously mentioned.

Parts of the petition stated, “The above facts adumbrated, the medical team in charge of our client’s treatment has expressed the opinion that our client’s chances of survival in the circumstances are very low and this has expectedly ushered our client’s relatives and friends into panic mood occasioning intense anxiety, and psychological traumatic experience arising from that.”