A Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of
Rumuolumeni Police Division in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of
Rivers state has been reportedly killed by unknown gunmen.
Identified as Kingsley Chukwueggu, he was shot dead by the
gunmen, who were in police uniform in the late hours of Sunday, 8th
April while he was in a private vehicle returning to Port Harcourt along
Awaza community road in Abia state.
It was gathered that the police officer had travelled to
see his aged mother in his village in Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area
of Imo State.
According to reports, the assailants attacked him several
times in his back with a cutlass before shooting him in the head at a
close range.
“Chukwueggu , who was approaching the point where the
hoodlums were standing, had stopped and come out of his car to instruct
them to stop harassing innocent citizens. He never knew that they were
not policemen. I think they identified him as a police officer and took
him into a nearby bush where they attacked him with a cutlass in the
back and shot him in the head,” an eye witness aid.
The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zaki Ahmed,
described Chukwueggu as one of the best Divisional Police Officers in
the country.
“We have lost a fine officer; one of the best DPOs. He
is professionally outstanding, a committed and dedicated officer, he did
the job with passion.
The late DPO left behind a wife, five children and his aged mother
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