President Muhammadu Buhari has assured families of the Police Officer, Usman Umar and that of the National Youth Service Corps member, Precious Owolabi, who both lost their lives in the line of duty.
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A statement by Adenike Adeyemi, Director of Press and Public Relations, NYSC, said the corpse of the deceased has been retrieved from the morgue of the National Hospital, Garki, Abuja and dispatched to his family in Zaria, Kaduna State.
Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, popularly known as Shiites, on Tuesday embarked on a fresh protest to demand for the release of their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky.
The Peoples Democratic Party has condoled with family of Precious Owolabi, a National Youth Service Corps member attached to Channels Television who was killed in Abuja during a clash between Shiites and police.
In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Tuesday, Buhari also condoled with the family of DCP Usman Umar, who also died during the unfortunate incident on Monday.
The Chairman of the union, Dr Qasim Akinreti, said in Lagos, that the union sympathised with the National Youths Service Corps and family of the corps member, Owolabi, who was shot on Monday while on duty.
The late DCP died while leading a detachment of policemen to contain the protest by members of the Islamic Movement in Abuja on Monday
The members of the IMN have in the last three weeks been protesting the continued incarceration of their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, and his wife by the Federal Government