A Deputy Inspector-General of Police and head of the Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Joseph Egbunike, is dead.
Unofficial report says Egbunike slumped in his office in Abuja on Tuesday night.
Egbunike’s Federal Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (FCIID) is widely seen as the most powerful and busy police department.
Until his death, Egbunike headed the Special Investigation Panel constituted by the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, to investigate the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, over alleged money laundering.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, did not categorically confirm the news.