The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress,Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has expressed shock and sadness over the death of five police officers who lost their lives while returning from Edo State where they went for an official assignment.

Ganduje made the remark while consoling the families of the deceased police officers in Bichi town, Kano State, on Saturday.

?We are here not for celebrations but for condolence to sympathize with the families, IGP, and the entire Kano of those that died while returning from a national assignment, which occurred last two weeks?, he said.

He said It has been the tradition of their party and his Government to always be with families in grief, and be with them to comfort them and make them feel that they are not alone in the sad moment.

Ganduje noted that the accident was a sad moment not only for the Police Force but for him and the nation in general, adding that five officers died instantly while 10 others sustained various degrees of injuries.

He added, ?I decided to personally come down to Bichi because of the enormity of the death, and because the officers gallantly died in active national service?.

The National Chairman of APC, who still recognised Bichi as a First Class Emirate Council, said, ?As far as I?m concerned Bichi has a First Class Emir?.

Ganduje similarly, personally donated N2 million to the five family members, while 10 others who sustained various degrees of injuries were given N1 million each.

The House of Representatives Committee Chairman on Appropriation, Abubakar Kabir Abubakar, who accompanied the APC National chairman, said that the incident personally touched him, and feel the pain of those who died and left their families behind.

He said that as a member of his Federal Constituency, Bichi, he sees the death as that which is of his family and he took it personally and felt the grief. (Saturday PUNCH)