Serial Killings: CCTV Footage Was Doctored, Rivers Assembly Insists

The Rivers State House of Assembly Ad hoc Committee set up to investigate the serial killer, Gracious David-West says it would do its best to ensure that justice is served in the matter, just as it insisted that the Close Circuit Television (CCTV) footage provided by one of the hotels where the suspect allegedly carried out the killings was doctored.
Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Kelechi Wogu disclosed this after members of the committee watched the footage at the State Assembly Complex in Port Harcourt.
Wogu, who is the lawmaker representing Omuma Constituency in the state legislature also said he would not believe that the suspect disappeared from the footage.
According to him, “We invited the hotel to come and tell us what is happening when we saw the CCTV footage trending. A lot of questions came up. Some people said he disappeared, some said he vanished, some said the CCTV camera was doctored.
“The hotel has come with their engineer who installed the CCTV and he said it was not doctored. He is also saying that what has happened there beats him. That he doesn’t understand what played out there. Well, I still maintain my ground that the CCTV camera was doctored.”
The lawmaker commended security operatives and the Rivers State Government for their efforts in arresting the suspected serial killer, noting that the committee would not relent in its efforts to ensure justice prevailed.
Wogu further said, “So a lot of things are not correct. So I think we will brief the security agencies of our findings and we will report back to the House. But believe me there was no disappearance, no vanishing. I want to assure Rivers people that we have confidence in the police. Let me also thank the Commissioner of Police, he has not just saved the lives of people living in Rivers State, he has saved the lives of the entire Nigerians.”

Dennis Naku