Police arrest suspected killers of DPO in Rivers

The Rivers State Police Command yesterday said it has arrested seven suspects who killed Mr Kingsley Chukwueggu, divisional police officer (DPO) of Rumuolumeni Division.

Commissioner of Police Mr Zaki Ahmed spoke in Port Harcourt while parading the suspects.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Chukwueggu was killed on April 9, 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, pretending to be on stop-and-search duty, and shot Chukwueggu from the back.

Ahmed said the suspects, who were arrested by men of the IGP monitoring unit in a “Sting operation”, confessed to the robbery and kidnapping.

According to the commissioner, the suspects terrorised Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway.
Ahmed said the suspects took the police to four graves where they buried their victims.
The police boss said the 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.

He said others included 52 live cartridges and two mobile-phones, belonging to the late DPO. He commended the IGP for deploying the technical team to Rivers to complement efforts of the command in crime fighting.

The leader of the suspects, Ogbonna aka “General”, said he was sorry for the act.