Rivers Police Nab 22 Suspects Over Officer’s Murder In Oyigbo

The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of 22 persons for allegedly killing a police officer, and burning a police vehicle in Kom-Kom, a popular community in Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state.
It would be recalled that some unidentified hoodlums, who were alleged to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (lPOB) in Oyigbo, had last Wednesday, attacked a police station in the community, and killed a cop attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in the area.
The hoodlums also burnt an operational vehicle belonging to the police, and vandalised a number of other vehicles parked in the police station.
The attack occurred at about 9:30am on the fateful day.
The Tide reports that SARS is a special anti-robbery unit of the Rivers State Police Command, and many of its operatives have been fingered in the past for involvement in activities untoward of professional police officers paid to protect innocent citizens.
Sources said that the state police command had dispatched no fewer than 25 patrol vans, each carrying no less than 10 officers, in an operation designed to fish out those responsible for the attack on the police station, and killing of the officer.
The Tide further learnt that residents of the area and commuters plying the roads were randomly searched, while some, who were caught unawares, desperately sought for cover in nearby houses, business premises, and other public places, for as long as the siege lasted.

By: Akujobi Amadi