DPO Who Owns Illegal Refinery In Rivers State To Be Investigated By Police
A panel has been set
up by the Rivers State Police Command to investigate a Divisioner Police
Officer (DPO) who is alleged to own an illegal refinery in Rivers State.
The acting State Police Public Relations Officer DSP Grace Iringe-Koko in a statement released on January 16 has said that the unnamed DPO has “immediately been redeployed and a panel headed by an assistant commissioner of police inaugurated to investigate the matter”
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DSP grace Iringe
Koko the Acting State Police Public Relations Officer has said that the outcome
of the investigation will be made public and if the allegations are confirmed
the officer will be punished appropriately.
It will be recalled
that the Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike had raised alarm this week and also demanded
that the DPO who was in charge of a division in a community called Rumuji in
Emohua LGA be redeployed. The governor alleged that the DPO was operating one
of the oil wells.
