Police Orders ‘Full-Scale Investigation’ into Murder of Rivers APC’s Campaign DG

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By Emmanuel Sunday 

The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the gruesome murder of the campaign director general of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ahoada West Local Government Area, Chisom Lennard.

The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Grace Iringe-Koko, confirmed this to newsmen in Port Harcourt.

In a statement on Sunday, SP Iringe-Koko said the Ahoada West APC campaign DG was killed on Saturday afternoon during the governorship and state House of Assembly election in his LGA by yet to be identified gunmen.

The Police Command’s image-maker said that the Commissioner of Police in charge of election duties in the state, CP Echeng Echeng, has ordered a speedy investigation into the killing of Chisom Lennard, to ensure immediate arrest and prosecution of killers.

The statement reads in part; “The Campaign DG was shot by yet to be identified gunmen in the afternoon of Saturday 18th March, 2023. 

“The Commissioner of Police commiserates with the bereaved family, and has promised to bring perpetrators of such heinous crime to justice.

According to her, “The Commissioner of Police in charge of the election duties in Rivers State Command, CP Echeng Echeng, has tasked operatives of the command to deploy all necessary human and investigative assets to ensure that the killers of the Campaign director-general for the All Progressives Congress in Ahoada West in Rivers State, Hon. Chisom Lenard, are brought to book.”