Latest protest by members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as the Shiites, on Monday claimed its highest profile victim. The Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operation at FCT Command, Abuja, was shot dead. Three other officers were critically injured.
Sources disclosed that DCP Usman Umar Belel was killed by the protesters while trying to prevent the hostile action of destruction of property at the axis of the federal secretariat and three arms zone.
Consequent upon the violence, security was beefed up at the Force headquarters to prevent reprisal attacks over the arrest of scores of the protesters who are demanding the release of the spiritual sect leader, Sheik Ibraheem El Zakzakky.
See photo of the DCP UU Belel below: