Meet Family of of Slain Brave Cop in Zenith Bank Owerri Robbery Video
On February 22, 2017, at a branch of Zenith Bank Owerri, in Imo State, there was a shoot out between a gang of robbers and a Sergent named Chukwudi Iboko. The robbers had reportedly tailed a customer of the bank to the Wetheral Road branch of Zenith Bank in Owerri and were engaged in a crossfire by the gallant cop which was captured by the CCTV of the bank.
The brave policeman who reportedly lost his life as a result of the exchange is survived by his 32-year-old wife, Mrs. Rose Iboko, a housewife and their eight children. It was revealed that one of their triplets slumped and died on the day he saw his father’s corpse.
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On coping with the kids without a dad, the wife of the slain cop told Sunday Punch, “it has been hell for me since he died. The children dropped out of school because I could no longer pay their school fees. I don’t work, I am a house wife. His sudden death was an agonising loss to my family. To eat is now a problem. Most times, we don’t eat and when we eat, it is half food. Last night (Friday), we took groundnuts as dinner. It has been very difficult for us. We now live from hand to mouth. We always go to bed hungry without knowing where the next meal will come from.
“I have eight children for him; seven boys and a girl, Success, who I earlier said is the last born. We have triplets; all boys, but sadly, one of them, Chukwuebuka, slumped and died the day their father’s remains were to be interred. He slumped immediately he saw his dad’s corpse during his lying-in-state and died.
“It was a double tragedy for my family that day. He was very close to his father. Despite being just five years, he couldn’t bear the loss of his loving father. Most of my children know that their father is dead, only the young ones are yet to comprehend what happened. I keep telling those ones anytime they ask after him that he is on a special assignment and would be back soon. But each time I lie to them, I would go into the room and weep profusely because when they ask for his whereabouts, I also recall the great moments we shared.”
The widow who is jobless is calling on the government and well meaning Nigerian to help support her children’s education and to take care of them. She says, “I want them to please do for his kids, the things he would have done for them as a father if he were alive. I am jobless. We are at the mercy of a landlord, he wants his rent. We owe 15-months, rent and that is about N180,000. I want the good people of Nigeria to come to our aid before we are thrown out of the apartment.”
Meanwhile, two suspects — Justice Ogbenna, aka JJ; and Okechukwu Onwuamaegbu, were arrested in April in Aba, Abia State, by the police in connection with the robbery.
Two AK-47 rifles, seven magazines and 127 pieces of live ammunition were recovered from them. Ogbenna, said to be the gang leader, was arrested on the day he was to bury his late father.
A go fund me campaign has been launched by well meaning Nigerians to raise funds for the surviving wife and children on the deceased. Click here to make your donations.
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Very nice. Nigerians are nice people. May the brave man’s soul continue to RIP. Amen.
Nigerians know how to run a good cause, we can actually make this family smile again.
pray Dey find help
So wuthout gofundme ,Zenith bank and Nigeria police can’t even compensate this woman whose husband died in active service? Tell me why another police man will give his life in same circumstance?
Rest in peace to the dead