The chain of events that led to the death
of Joseph Egbunike, a Deputy Inspector
General (DIG) of Police in charge of the
Force Criminal Investigations Department
(FCID), began from the seemingly harmless
consumption of a meal, FlJ can report.
According to insiders at the Force
Heaquarters, Abuja, Egbunike was eating a
meal in his office on Tuesday when “a fish
bone stuck in the wrong place’.
“He was eating in his office when he got
hooked in the throat by a fish bone, and
all efforts to retrieve it proved abortive,”
a long-standing FlJ source at the Force
headquarters said. “He had to be rushed
to the hospital, where doctors successfully
removed it via a surgery.
Egbunike, the source said, felt better after
the procedure, so he returned home.
“However, not long after returning home, he
started feeling great discomfort again and
had to be returned to the hospital; that is
where he eventually died”
A second Force Headquarters source,
who also confirmed Egbunike was at
the hospital to remove the fish bone,
said the DIG, being obese, was always at
risk of worsened health condition after
any surgical process, no matter how
uncomplicated it seems.
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“His health was so fragile because he was
obese” said the source, “and he tried his
best to manage it, for example with the
standard bed inside his office that enabled
him to rest at short intervals whenever he
felt weak”
Until his death, Egbunike headed the
Police Special Investigations Panel that
probed Abba Kyari, the suspended Deputy
Commissioner of Police (DCP) and head
of the Police Intelligence Response Team
(IRT), over his alleged involvement in fraud.
He was previously the Commissioner of
Police in charge of budget and finance at
the Force headquarters.
Egbunike held a Bachelor of Science (Hons)
Accounting degree from the University of
Nigeria, Nsukka; a Bachelor of Laws (LLB
Hons.), B.L; a Masters in International
Law and Diplomacy (MILD); and a PhD in
Criminology.
Professionally, he belonged to the
International Association of Chiefs of Police
(IACP), Association of National Accountant
of Nigeria (ANAN), Nigeria Bar Association
(NBA), Institute of Cost Management (ICM),
Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM) and
the Chartered Institute of Fraud Examiners.
Source: FIJ
