Activities were at a standstill at Kwara State Police Command and Police Officers' Mess in IIorin following the assassination of the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Chinweke Asadu, in Enugu.

A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who went round Ilorin on Sunday, reports that the command and other police formations were like ghost towns.

At the command and other formations visited by NAN, officers and men were seen discussing the demise of the police chief.

Some top police officers in some of the formations and officers' mess were in tears while others were too dazed to utter a word.

Some of the officers, who spoke to NAN but refused to give their names, described the death of the commissioner as `a big tragedy' to the command and the entire police force

"We have lost a fine gentleman and hardworking officer," they said.

Asadu was shot on Saturday night at Amorji-Nike in Enugu East Local Government Area of Enugu State by unknown gunmen.

The late commissioner's orderly, Mr Aloha Olaniyi, and his driver, Mr Oliver Omeh, who were with him at the time of the incident, sustained bullet wounds.

The two men are currently receiving treatment at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu.

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