Police Recover Gun from Enugu Commssioner
From Francis Ugwoke in Enugu, 02.23.2007

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The Enugu State Police Command yesterday recovered AK Ka-lashinikov rifle from a serving Commissioner for Special Duties, Mr. Sunday Nnaji Nwankaru who is now in police net for illegal possession of fire arms loaded with 30 live ammunition.
The rifle which was said to have been recovered in the early hours of yesterday followed a report filed by the Commissioner for Sports, Mr Ray Nnaji who is a cousin to the suspect.
The Commissioner for Special Duties who throughout yesterday, spent most of the time with the Police was alleged to have been at logger heads with his cousin, Ray over undisclosed political matters.
It was gathered that the suspect had allegedly threatened to deal with his cousin in a fresh face off, a development which forced . the Sports Commissioner to report the matter to the Police which in turn invited Nwankaru to the Police Headquarters yesterday.
Sources had it that the suspect who may have sensed that his house was going to be search soon sent some boys to remove the rifle but he was not lucky as youths in his community confronted his boys.
It was gathered that the suspicious youths followed the errand boys in Okada and tracked them down at a spot where they recovered the rifle hidden in Peugeot 504 AE B2 ENU used by the boys working for the suspect.
The youths were said to have immediately taken the rifle to the Police station along some of the errand boys.
At the Police yesterday, were both Ray Nnaji and the suspect, including a female local government chairman said to be the inlaw of the State Governor, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani.
Nnaji said that the problem started last year when he alleged that the suspect hired some thugs to eliminate him.

The Commissioner for Sports who was former National Auditor of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) accused his cousin suspect of mobilizing youths and elders in his Amugu community to excommunicate him, claiming that this was the next move after his alleged plot to kill him failed.
Claiming innocent of why his cousin would want to eliminate him, Nnaji said he has reported the matter to the governor before he was made commissioner.
He told newsmen at the Police Headquarters Enugu of copies of an address where the President-General of Amugo Town Union, Chief Martin Nnajioffor at the community's Annual convention recently warned people from relating with him.
The Town Union President, according to the Commissioner had warned that anyone relating with him would be fined N1,000.
He blamed his cousin for instigating his people against him for no just cause.
However efforts made to get Nwankau to state his own side of the case failed as at the time of filing this report.

I'm just tired!When you disagree with someone, the next thing is to kill him in Nigerian politics a la Bola Ige, Harry Marshal, Chief Dikibo,The Igwes and countless other perceived threats to PDP nationwide.OBJ's legacy of banditry,violence,destruction!Na wa o!

the major reason is that such "disagreements" is not about ideas but about a do-or-die attempt at an illegal access to the public till.

That too,unfortunately so!