Although the Enugu State police command has refused to disclose the identities and number of suspects arrested over the murder of the commissioner of police, Kwara State command, Mr Chinwike Asadu, LEADERSHIP investigations revealed that about 500 suspects might have been arrested over their alleged involvement in the matter.

It was also gathered that the suspects were arrested in drinking and relaxation joints.

Operatives of the command, it was further gathered, stormed different joints in the state and carried out the arrests.

But the commissioner of police, Enugu State Ccommand, Mr Tonye Ebitibituwa, had, while briefing newsmen yesterday on the activities of his command since he took over and the recent murder of Asadu, stated that the police had made some arrests.

He, however, refused to disclose the identities and number of the people operatives of the command had arrested.

... Night life grounded over fear of mass arrest

Investigations carried out by our correspondents revealed that night life has been grounded in Enugu following the ongoing mass arrest.

Most operators of drinking and relaxation joints told LEADERSHIP that they were already counting their losses because of the alleged ongoing mass arrest since this Sunday.

But Ebitibituwa further disclosed that his operatives were working hard to bring the perpetrators of the wicked act to book and assured that no innocent citizen would be molested.

The command, he further disclosed, was still investigating the case, hence its refusal to disclose certain information.

The Enugu police boss also stated that the command had been talking to the injured aides of the late commissioner who are in the intensive care unit of a hospital.

The commissioner added that, in accordance with the practice in the police, his command posted a guard to the residence of the late police commissioner.

Asadu’s murder must not go unresolved - Reps

Meanwhile, the House of Representatives has mandated all its relevant committees to ensure that the brutal murder of Asadu in Enugu is properly prosecuted, while directing the inspector-general of police (IGP), Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, to ensure that the killing does not go the way of the previous unresolved murders and assassinations.

This is just as the lawmakers also asked President Goodluck Jonathan to redouble up efforts in strengthening security of life in the country in line with his position as the chief security officer of the country and “to ensure that all his security chiefs are on top of their schedules”.

The decisions were part of the resolutions of a motion moved by the spokesman of the House, Hon Zakari Mohammed, on the subject during the plenary session yesterday.

Also among the resolutions passed by the lawmakers is that states should be encouraged to install CCTV cameras in their capital cities and public places.

Leading the debate on the motion, the chairman of the House Committee on Media and Public Relations, after a minute’s silence was observed in honour of the late officer, noted that the killing of the Kwara CP questions “our fast-deteriorating security capacity to deal with all forms of crime in its ramifications”.

Taking a trip down memory lane,  Zakari recalled “that the IGP, Mr, Mohammed Abubakar, on resumption of office last year lamented the pending unresolved murders and other heinous crimes in the country, and stated that the murders were  traceable to the incapacity of criminal investigation departments”. He stressed that “since the death of Dele Giwa, former editor-in-chief of Newswatch magazine, through a parcel bomb in 1986, Hajiya Sadaatu Rimi, Olufunsho Anthony Williams (2006), Marshall Harry (2003) and Chief Bola Ige (2001), no high-profile killing or assassination has been unravelled”.

Zakari  also stated that it was worrisome that the late Asadu , who by all standing, was an officer of law who had a high level of detail to ensure safety in the discharge of his constitutional responsibility of policing, was caught by assassins’ bullet.

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