There was serious trouble on Saturday morning in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, when enraged members of the public who witnessed the
reckless killing of a sachet water (pure water) vendor by a police corporal took to the street to protest the dastardly killing.

Corporal Rowland Onyijie of Okporo Division in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area allegedly demanded for N100 from the sachet water vendor who refused to grant his request.

A hot contention was said to have resulted between the police corporal and the water merchant amid which the previous positioned his rifle and discharged, executing the water seller in a split second in his tricycle famously called Keke NAPEP.

Whenever reached, Nnamdi Omoni, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Rivers State Police Command affirmed the episode, including that the Commissioner of Police, Zaki Ahmed, has requested quick capture and detainment of the corporal at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID for facilitate examination.



Source: Naijcrackgist