Confusion sets in after the death of a 50-year-old pepper soup seller (whose identity of the deceased could not be ascertained) occured on hearing the sound of sporadic gunshots by police officers on the 2nd of February, 2016 in Kwale, headquarters of Ndokwa West Local Government Area, Delta State.
The deceased was said to have slumped and died after trembling in shock during the gunshots from men of the Special Anti-Kidnapping Squad of Delta State Police Command, who stormed the area to arrest Mr. Ozegbe Adoh, the National President of Ndokwa Youths Alive Progressive Forum, NYAPF. He was apprehended on allegations of involvement in the vandalism of the Independent Power Plant at Okpai in Ndokwa East Local Government Area last year.
It was reported that the police invaded a shop close to the deceased’s pepper soup restaurant at Esumpi Road, shooting sporadically into the air where Adoh was relaxing with his friends at about 8p.m. A source (anonymous) said “The deceased was not hit by stray bullets, but was visibly overwhelmed by shock at the sound of the gunshots, which made him to slump.”
Celestina Kalu, Police Public Relations Officer of the command,when contacted, said Adoh was a fleeing prime suspect in the vandalism of the power plant. She said men of the Special Anti-Kidnapping Squad had reported a case of vandalism of the IPP via a petition by the Nigeria Agip Oil Company on November 19, 2015.
Kalu said intensive surveillance of the team resulted in Adoh’s arrest, saying investigation was in progress.
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