Ex-Enugu high court judge, Stanley Nnaji assassinated

The Police Command in Enugu State, on Monday, declared that it has commenced a manhunt for the killers of previous Enugu State High Court Judge, Justice Stanley Nnaji.

Justice Nnaji was allegedly murdered by gunmen suspected to be assassins on Sunday evening.

A statement by the Police Command in Enugu State, however, could not identify the victim as an ex-Judge.

The statement was entitled, ‘Murder of an unidentified man: CP orders full-scale manhunt of assailants, says they must be fished out and brought to book’.

It read, “The Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, CP Mohammed Aliyu, has ordered the launch of a full-scale manhunt for yet-to-be-identified armed assailants, alleged to have trailed and shot dead an unidentified man driving in a Mercedes Benz Jeep, which they carted away, along Ebeano Tunnel, Enugu, on Sunday, 30/05/2021 at about 1700hrs.

“The victim, whose true identity is yet to be known, was rushed to the hospital, where he was confirmed dead by doctors on duty and deposited in the mortuary for autopsy.”

The statement signed by the Command representative, Daniel Ndukwe, cited the Commissioner, to have guaranteed to make every possible effort to find the culprits of the terrible crime.

Meanwhile, the PPRO urged citizens of the state to abide by the law, stay on alert and support the police with beneficial information that would lead to the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators.