DIG Egbunike, Slumps, Dies

By Gideon Njoku

The highest ranking, serving, Police Officer of Igbo extraction, Deputy Inspector General of Police, DIG Joseph Obiajulu Egbunike is dead.

Egbunike, the DIG, Force Criminal Investigation Department, FCID, reportedly, slumped in his office on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, and died.

A brilliant and well read officers, as the DIG FCID, Egbunike was in charge of the Force’s highest Investigation and Prosecution Department.

He read Accountancy at the University of Nsukka, where he got a BSc. He went on to read law and possessed an LLB, BL, a Masters in International Law and Diplomacy, and a PhD in Criminology.

His most recent national assignment was the investigation of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, over his association with international internet fraudster, Hushpuppi, and a bribery allegation to the tune of about eight million Naira,

A native of Onitsha, Anambra State, Egbunike was born November 30, 1961.

With his sudden passing, the next most senior officer from the South-east will be appointed as a DIG since the office of the DIG is political. As a matter of policy, every zone of the Federation must have a DIG.