Monday, November 11, 2024 - Pandemonium erupted on Saturday morning at the popular Ikoku Market in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of Rivers State when business owners arrived to find a corpse with machete wounds.
This happened as Rivers State Police Command, which confirmed the
development, said a preliminary investigation showed the victim was notorious
and may have been lynched.
It also gathered that the vital organs of the male victim, especially
the private part, had been removed, sparking suspicions that he had been killed
for ritual purposes.
According to Vanguard, the corpse
was abandoned in front of a new-generation bank on Ayama Junction along
Olu-Obasanjo road Port Harcourt.
A source, who owns a shop at Ikuku, identified simply as Emeka,
disclosed that the stomach of the late man was ripped open and his intestine
allegedly removed.
Emeka said that the identity of the deceased was yet to be ascertained
even as onlookers gathered.
However, the Public Relations Officer of the State Police Command, Grace
Iringe-Koko, a Superintendent of Police, noted that the victim was known in the
area for notorious activities.
Iringe-Koko dismissed the report of the harvest of vital organs,
stressing that all the victim’s vital organs were intact.
She said: “On November 9, 2024, at
about 1030hrs, the Rivers State Police Command received a report of an
unidentified corpse lying near Ayama Junction/Ikokwu Spare Parts Market, along
Olu-Obasanjo Road, Port Harcourt. Our operatives promptly
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