difficulties pops in fishing out Igwe's killer —Lagos CP

Challenges pops up as investigation on Mr Dimgba Igwe who was knocked down by a hit-and-run driver three weeks ago in Ago-Okota area of the state, statement issued by the Lagos State Police Command yesterday.
58 years old man was jogging down the street when he was hit down by this vehicle, he was then moved to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, for surgical emergency, unfortunately, he did not survive.

Late Igwe

CP

Intensified efforts has been made to apprehend the killer driver but no head way yet, disclosed by the CP, Kayode Aderanti. This difficulty arises from the fact that there has been some inability to get information from eye-witnesses. Quoted from his sayings, He said “My presence at the Sun Publishing Limited shows the commitment of the Inspector-General of Police over the death of the veteran journalist. I have transferred the case to SCID for a thorough and comprehensive investigation because I want to take it beyond mere hit-and-run. I have even involved operatives of SARS. I am using this medium to appeal to members of the public to avail us with information because we tried to identify the kind of vehicle that knocked him down. So far, the information we have is scanty. That brings to mind the culture of having Closed-Circuit Television, CCTV, in our houses. This should not be left to government alone. Individual houses should also learn to install them in their premises. If we had CCTV around, somebody, somewhere would have captured the incident and within 24 hours, we would have been able to solve this issue.”

However, he urges the killer driver to come forward and give himself to the police. He recalled similar incident in Area ‘A’ some time ago, where the driver showed up by himself in his office then, saying he was the one that hit the person in question. He said he had not been able to sleep since the incident occurred.
Meantime, the CP also admonished illegal arms owners in Lagos State to surrender their weapons within two weeks or face the wrath of the law; giving this order while speaking to journalists at the command headquarters in Lagos.