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  • Crime - Rivers
  • Updated: December 21, 2022

Family Accuses Police Of Killing Their Son In Detention

Family Accuses Police Of Killing Their Son In Detention

Police

The family of a man arrested in Rivers State by the Police has accused the force of killing and burying the remains of their son.

Vanguard reports that operatives of the Octopus Strike Force unit of the Rivers State Police Command, sometime in October arrested one Life Sunday around Elelenwo town, Obio/Akpor Local Government area.

The elder brother of the victim, Leegbari Sunday in Port Harcourt on Wednesday said Life was arrested around Odani junction in Elelenwo and that since the arrest that the family have not been allowed to see him (Life).

He disclosed that police personnel at the Octopus Strike Force unit told them that their brother was arrested based on a petition by a prominent person in Ogoni alleging that the suspect was notorious.

Leegbari claimed that the oolice did not allow their brother access to his family and a lawyer and that they (the police) refused to charge him in court if he has committed any crime.

He revealed that recently, the family got reliable information that their brother died in police custody out of torture and was subsequently buried.

Leegbari called on the Commissioner of Police, CP Effiong Okon, to compel the Octopus Strike Force unit to produce their brother (Life Sunday) in public or in court if they claim he is alive.

The Spokesperson of the Rivers State Police Command, Grace Iringe-Koko, a Superintendent of Police, at press time could not confirm the development.

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