By Eric Olusesan
The Rivers State Police Command has arrested one Sergeant Bitrus Osaiah attached to the Operations Department of the Command who shot a police woman sergeant Lovender Elekwachi to death at Eneka, in Obio/Akpor Local Government area.
The decease sergeant Lovender Elekwachi who until her untimely death was serving at Eneka Division and was shot while controlling traffic by Sergeant Bitrus Osaiah attached to the Operations Department of the Command.
In a press statement signed by the Police public relation officer DSP NNAMDI OMONI, said the Sergeant who is said to be attached to the Rivers State Task Force on Decongestion, has been arrested, disarmed and undergoing Orderly Room Trial with two other members of the Task Force also been arrested and are being questioned.
While the Hilux vehicle belonging to the Task Force has been impounded and the corpse of the Woman Sergeant deposited in the mortuary.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Joseph G. Mukan, psc has ordered full scale investigation into the matter with a view to unraveling the circumstances that led to her death and has appealed for calm, pending the outcome of the investigation, promising that the interest of justice must be served in the circumstance.
