Heart-breaking – Taskforce kills Compassionate Policewoman, mother of 4

An obviously kind-hearted and compassionate policewoman and mother of four, has paid dearly for her kindness with her life.

She had been felled by bullets from her colleagues in the Rivers State taskforce while she was trying to stop them destroying goods belonging to lockdown defaulters.

Competent sources said the incident happened at 1st. Market junction at Eneka, Obio-Akpor,Port Harcourt while the lady was in active service.

She had been touched by the level of destruction of people’s goods by the task force took the hustling traders by surprise, and thought she could wade in to mitigate the losses when the incident occurred.

The tragedy has already been confirmed by Joseph Mukan, the Rivers State Commissioner of Police

He described the tragedy as a misuse of weapon by the policeman attached to the taskforce, adding:  “A policeman attached to the taskforce did the shooting.

“He was shooting anyhow and in the process killed another policewoman. The policewoman was hit by a stray bullet”.

Mukan added that the policeman was immediately arrested, disarmed and subjected to orderly room trial.

“As I am talking to you, the orderly room trial is ongoing. If we conclude it this night, we will arraign him tomorrow”, he said.

Mukan said there was no justification for the killing adding that the law must take its course.