Lagos DPO Dies In Office

The Divisional Police Officer in charge of the
Ijede Police Station, Nwaoha Uzoma, has
died.
Our correspondent learnt that Uzoma’s
corpse was found in his office on Thursday, a
day after he entered and locked himself in.
It was gathered that after he did not pick his
calls, anxious relatives and policemen in the
station broke the door open and saw his
lifeless body on the floor.

PUNCH Metro gathered that Uzoma, a
Superintendent of Police, was formerly
heading the Anthony Police Division, before
he was posted to Ijede, in the Ikorodu area,
early in December.
Our correspondent gathered that the
deceased, who was married with children,
was in his fifties.
A police source said, “The DPO was posted
from Anthony to Ijede around December 5. At
that time, he had an illness, which was not
very serious. He was a friendly man who
could sometime become angry and that’s
when you offend him. But once he showed
his anger and you begged him, he forgave
and that would end it.
“On the day of the incident, he entered his
office and shut himself in. People didn’t
suspect anything because he sometimes
slept there. People didn’t see him come out
throughout that day and then the next day,
they called his phone repeatedly but he
didn’t pick it.
“That was how people became suspicious
and broke the door. They found his corpse on
the floor.”
The police were said to have evacuated the
corpse and deposited it in a private
mortuary.
Another police source, who claimed to be
close to the deceased, told our
correspondent that he saw him few days to
his death and he was looking healthy.
He said, “I still saw him at a meeting where
he was all smiles and didn’t show any sign
of sickness. I was told he slumped and died
in his office.”
The Lagos State Police Public Relations
Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, while confirming
the incident on Sunday, explained that the
police had yet to ascertain the cause of
death.
He said, “On December 25, at about 8am, SP
Nwaoha Uzoma, was found dead in his office
at the Ijede Police Station. His corpse was
removed and deposited at St. Raphael
Hospital morgue for autopsy.

Source: Punch

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