IGP Orders Probe Of Police Inspector’s Death In Kogi

The Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba has called for in-depth investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a Police Inspector, Atobaloye Taiye, in Kogi detention.

Inspector Atobaloye who was on Quick Intervention special duty from Oke-Onigbin Divisional Headquarters, Kwara State to the Zone 8 Headquarters, Lokoja which covers Kogi and Kwara States died in police detention cell after he was accused of absence from duty without authorisation.

A statement issued yesterday  by Olumuyiwa Adejobi, force public relations officer, stated that details from the zonal headquarters report showed that the inspector was posted on April 1, 2023, reported on April 11 and was immediately posted as part of the team manning the main gate of the zonal command headquarters.

However, he failed to report at the duty post and went missing in action for nine days, only to resurface on April 19 in a drunken state.

He was eventually defaulted and detained for absence from duty and drunkenness.

While on detention, he reportedly took ill and was moved to the police clinic, then referred to the Federal Medical Centre Lokoja, where he eventually gave up the ghost.

The inspector-general of police while commiserating with the family, friends and loved ones of the deceased, has tasked the Criminal Investigation Department’s Homicide Unit of the Kogi State Command to commence investigations and conduct a postmortem examination on the corpse in order to determine the cause(s) of his death.