A female Police Inspector, Mrs. Christiana Erekere, who is serving in Rivers State has been hacked to death by youths numbering over 40 at her duty post at Taabaa in Khana Local Government Area of the state.
The victim, a widow and mother of four children, who was serving at Taabaa Divisional Police office, was reportedly killed with stones and sticks by the irate youths.
It was gathered that the killers were travelling from Delta State to Akwa Ibom State for a wedding programme when they carried out the tragic act.
A source, who witnessed the development, but preferred anonymity, said the youths who carried out the act numbered over 40 and that they went on rampage when the police on stop-and-search operation in the area questioned the validity of the document of one of the cars they were travelling on.
The source said the youths had created a scene on the road blocking the major road and demanding that the Police Deputy Superintendent of Police who had their car paper must return it and allow them go.
It said the youths saw Mrs. Ekerefe, who was on duty, fiddling with her phone and quickly pounced on her with stones and sticks claiming that she was making video of them.
The source said: On 25-4-2024 at about 2:30pm, Inspector Christiana Erekere (female) while on duty at Taabaa Division in Khana local Government Area of Rivers state was beaten to death by some group of persons with three vehicles from Delta State going to Akwa-Ibom state for marriage.
However, the family of the deceased woman has called for justice over the killing of their sister who was serving the nation before she was attacked and killed.
Elder sister to the victim, Mrs Nule Felix, noted that her sister was mercilessly killed and that she was rushed to a hospital but was only confirmed death.
Nule said: “All efforts at the hospital to revive her was abortive. She has been deposited in the mortuary. She was a widow with four children and her age mother who is over 80yrs. We are seeking for Justice.”
Meanwhile, the Rivers State Police Command said it has arrested 16 of the persons involved the barbaric act, adding that investigations were still on.
The spokesperson of the Command, Grace Iringe-Koko, a Superintendent of Police, in Port Harcourt, said the Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu, led some senior officers of the command to the victim’s family, noting that Christiana was killed in the line of duty.
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