Updated: DIG Egbunike death: Police source faults his operation under high BP

Fresh facts have emerged on the death of the Deputy Inspector General of Police in Charge Force Criminal Investigations Department, and head of the probe panel of suspended DCP Abba Kyari, DIG Joseph Obiajulu Egbunike.

The police said the DIG died at the National Hospital Abuja after a surgery done on him which might have been a medical error.

Police sources said DIG Egbunike was driven to National Hospital for a medical check-up following severe neck pains that troubled him at the weekend.

On getting to the hospital and seeing the pain the DIG was going through, the doctors immediately recommended an operation leading to the DIG being taken into the theatre.

Sources at the hospital however said that the National Hospital doctors knowing full well that the senior police officer had a history of high blood pressure, would have allowed him to stabilise and the BP reduced to a manageable state before proceeding with the operation.

“They ignored this and this is a medical error. There is no doubt this may gave led to his death”.

DIG Egbunike was said to be feeling uncomfortable during the weekend and on Tuesday went to see the doctor for a medical check-up after which he was given drugs and told to go.

Minutes later, the senior officer who was said to have driven to office and was his usual bubbling self slumped and died.

Egbunike who had previously served as the DIG in charge of Finance and Administration before he was appointed DIG Investigation hailed from Onitsha in Anambra State.