Two police officers serving in Gombe State, has been arrested for killing a father of four children, Mr. Peterside, in a bar in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
According to reports, the incident happened in lounge in Elelenwo Community of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, Port Harcourt.
The said policemen were a team of special operatives sent into the state for special operation.
It is gathered that the Victim had gone to the lounge alongside his three children and wife when trouble which triggered the gunfire that picked late Peterside ensured.
Confirming the report, the Public Relations Officer of the State Police Command, Grace Iringe-Koko, a Superintendent of Police, said the matter was reported by Ebikere Peterside, wife of the victim.
Iringe-Koko said: “On Monday, August 7, 2023, Rivers State Police Command received a complaint from one Peterside Ebikere “F,” of Police Road, Elelenwo, Port Harcourt, that on Thursday, August 3, 2023, at about 2200 hrs, while at a Bar/Lounge in company of her husband and three children, all of a sudden, pandemonium broke out, and in the midst of the confusion, mobile policemen from 43 PMF Gombe on special duty in Rivers State on guard fired several shots that hit her husband.
“He was rushed to Save-a-Life Hospital, where he was certified dead by the doctor on duty. Meanwhile, they have deposited the corpse at the Military Hospital Mortuary. The policemen have been arrested and detained at the State CID for further investigation, and the outcome of the investigation will be made public.”
