NGOZI OKORIE
A policeman attached to the Rumuokoro Police Divisional Office in Rivers State, on Thursday, shot dead a commercial tricyclist for allegedly refusing to part with N100 as bribe.
The victim, popularly called School Boy, was shot at Elukpokpodu Road, Rukpokwu, in the Obio Akpor Local Government Area of Port Harcourt.
The development caused a riot by angry youths and colleagues of the ‘Keke’ driver.
This was even as the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Nnamdi Omoni, said the officer who shot the victim had been arrested.
It was gathered that two more people might have been killed in the fracas that greeted the joint efforts of vigilante groups and the Police at maintaining order in the area, and preventing the mob from burning down the police station.
