The Rivers State Police Command on Monday, said it has arrested seven suspects in connection with the killing of Mr. Kingsley Chukwuegu, the slain Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Rumuolumeni Division.
Rivers State Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr. Zaki Ahmed, stated this in Port Harcourt while parading the suspects.
Chukwuegu was killed on April 9, 2018, while returning to Port Harcourt from his village.
“I am proud to invite you here today to parade these mindless killers of that promising officer, whose life was cut short” Ahmed said!
He said the gang had intercepted the DPO, while pretending to be on a stop and search duty and shot Chukwuegu from the back.
Ahmed said that the suspects, who were arrested by men of IGP monitoring unit during a sting operation, had confessed to have partaken in robbery and kidnapping.
According to the commissioner, the suspects terrorised Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway.
Ahmed said that during investigation, the suspects took the police to four different graves where they had buried their victims, adding that bodies of their victims had already decomposed.
The police boss stated that exhibits recovered from the suspects were two pump Action guns, two-locally-made revolver pistols, one cut-to-size barrel gun and one single barrel gun.
Others include 52 live cartridges and two mobile-phones, belonging to the late DPO.
He commended the IGP for deploying the technical team to Rivers state to complement the efforts of the command in crime fighting.
Meanwhile, the leader of the suspects, Ogbonna aka General, said he was sorry for his actions.
