Ghanaian arrested for killing Abuja police commissioner

- Say he was killed in error
A member of a seven-man robbery gang, Richard Nyako, from Ghana, yesterday gave a vivid account of how his gang killed the Commissioner of Police in charge of Mobile Police Force (CP, MPF), Mr. Felix Oteka, on December 5, last year, in Abuja, saying the deceased was killed in error.

Richard, who stated this while being paraded by the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero, along with other members of the gang, however, said the leader of the gang, identified simply as Prince, was on the run.


He said what happened on the day of the incident was that the gang had gone to rob the A.U.A. Shopping Complex in Abuja and was returning when the Honda Accord car used for the operation developed a fault and they were trying to rectify it when suddenly they heard the blast of siren.


“When we heard the siren, we thought the people we went to rob had alerted the police as we sighted a police Mazda van which we thought was on our trail.

“Immediately, our leader, Prince, along with Blessed and Uche, who carried sophisticated weapons, including AK-47 rifles, opened fire on the van to scare away the police, but we later learnt that it was the commissioner of police, who was just going on his own, that was inside the vehicle. He was shot and killed in the process,” he said.


Regretting the action, Richard said “we regretted our action, the commissioner of police was killed in error, nobody paid us a kobo to kill him, it was an accident, if we had known that nobody was on our trail, we would just have allowed him to pass and later continue with our operation.”