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When Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Iheanyi Anyimukwu left his Wuse 2 residence to work, on the fateful morning of March 1, 2008, there was nothing to tell his eight months pregnant wife that it would be the last time she will see her husband of about 5 years alive.

Alas, she was only told a few hours afterwards that her hubby was in the intensive care unit of Wuse General Hospital. He gave up the ghost after about 24 hours in the hospital.

“I fainted when I heard the news,” Mrs Juliet Anyimukwu told Daily Sun in an interview at her Wuse 2 residence. To compound matters for the woman, her son, Iheanyichukwu Jnr, kept asking “Where is daddy?”
According to her, her husband was involved in an accident with a jeep driven by a member of the House of Representatives, Honorable Suleiman Kokori Abdul from Kogi State. “Am pregnant and I will put to bed in about one month.

And since the death of my husband, what has been going on in my mind is that this baby will not know the father,” Mrs Anyimukwu said just she broke into tears. Holding tightly to her two-and-a-half year son, Anyimukwu lamented that the worst part of her ordeal is the fact that since the death of her husband, neither Honorable Abdul nor the police authorities have tried to contact her.

“The sad news of my husband’s death did not just come to me as a rude shock but the sad aspect was when the Hon. Abdul Kokori that killed my husband spoke to journalists and manipulated the story of the circumstances that surrounded his death.

I fainted when I watched the man lie that he took my husband to the hospital.” By her own account, “my late husband told his younger brother, Chukwuemeka, how he pleaded with the man (Kokori) to take him to the hospital. Instead, he neglected my husband and phoned his own family and colleagues, who rushed only him from the scene of the accident and left my husband to the mercy of passersby.”

Anyimukwu stated that shortly after her husband’s death, Honorable Kokori had gone to some media houses claiming it was an accidental collision and did not add that he refused to help the police officer by rushing him to the hospital. “Am convinced that the man is only using his social and political position to hire the media for he believe that might is right,” she stated.

She appealed to all necessary authorities not to let the matter lie low. “I know what has happened has happened. We cannot reverse the situation. God knows best and I trust he will take care of us. Like I said I will soon put to bed but painfully, without my husband or a father for the child.

The honorable member is alive for his own family, no matter what. I appeal to the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Inspector General of Police to look into the pathetic condition so that the law takes its course as nobody should be allowed to place himself above the law, no matter how highly placed.”
Efforts to make contact with Honorable Abdul proved abortive at the time of this report.