Patience Jonathan’s ex-security aide killed

A Deputy Superintendent of Police, Tamuno Jacob
Igbomie, who was Principal Security Officer to the wife
of the former President, Patience Jonathan, has been
shot dead by unknown assailants.
Igbomie’s corpse was found in his Honda Accord car
last Friday along the Airport Road, Abuja.
The former PSO, who was married with two children,
was believed to have been killed by assassins who shot
him at close range in his car and left the engine
running.
A source said the body of the DSP was found early in
the morning with all his phones, wallet and other
personal effects in tact in the car.
“We believe Tamuno was killed by hired assassins
because they did not take away anything in his car. His
phones and wallets were still with him when his body
was found in the car with the engine steaming.
“He was shot in the night and his body was found early
in the morning; we don’t know if he was killed over a
business transaction or disagreement with someone,”
the source who served with the deceased at the villa
stated.
It was gathered that the deceased, who hailed from
Okrika, Bayelsa State, was serving at the Federal
Capital Territory Police Command before he was
deployed to the Presidential Villa as Aide-De-Camp to
Patience when her husband was the Vice President.
He was later appointed as the PSO to Patience when
her husband became the President in 2011.
Findings indicate that the late policeman had just been
redeployed back to his former position at the FCT
Police Command, where he was in charge of posting of
junior officers.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu,
confirmed the killing of the policeman, noting that
investigation had started to unravel the assailants.
“Yes, a DSP attached to the villa was killed last week
Friday, investigation has started to find out the people
behind the murder. No arrest has been made yet,” he
said over the phone on Sunday.
The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Anjuguri
Manzah, said the FCT Commissioner of Police, Wilson
Inalegwu, had ordered an investigation into the tragic
incident.