Police Officer Shot Dead By Copral In Bauchi

Superintendent Chris Eza's life was
rudely cut short, no thanks to his
untimely death on February 25, 2015.
Vanguard Metro gathered that on that
fateful day of the incident, SP Eza had
gone out to get food at an eatery along
Ahmadu Bello Way around 9pm when he
saw some police men on patrol. On
observation, he found out that one of
them was not properly dressed and
immediately reprimanded him. The cop, a
corporal, did not take kindly to this and
grumbled in protest.
An angry Chris felt the corporal’s action
was unacceptable and warned the fellow
that he was going to disarm him if he
didn’t take care. Instead of apologising,
the corporal cocked his gun and
threatened to shoot the superintendent.
Calling his bluff, Eza moved towards the
junior cop who immediately opened fire,
killing the superintendent in the process.
A close colleague to the slain officer,
Ayodele Agbebi, said that it was wrong
for SP Chris to threaten to disarm the
police corporal while on duty. According
to Ayodele:
“I feel that SP Chris Eza overstepped his
bounds and acted inappropriately towards
the police corporal. What I expected from
him was to lay whatever complaints he
had against the corporal with the Police
authorities instead of trying to disarm
him.
“Chris Eza was highly connected to big
personalities. He was once an ADC to
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, so he had
rapid promotions. Success in this way can
be very intoxicating.
“So, it’s quite sad that he ended that way,
but this serves as a lesson to all to always
be humble and respect people
irrespective of who they are”.
In a statement, the Police Public Relations
Officer of the Command, DSP Haruna
Mohammed, disclosed that Eza was on
routine visit to a checkpoint on Ahmadu
Bello Way, Bauchi when the incident
happened. Mohammed said that Eza was
rushed to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
University Teaching Hospital, ATBUTH,
Bauchi where he was certified dead by a
medical doctor.
Eza had been described as a gallant and
easy going officer. His corpse has since
been deposited at the teaching hospital
mortuary for post-mortem examination.
Meanwhile, the suspect has been arrested
and detained, while Mohammed has
ordered full scale investigation into the
matter.