The Chief Provost of Nigerian Immigration Service, Imo State Command, Okiemute Mrere, has been assassinated.
Mrere was murdered on Saturday night on Owerri- Port Harcourt Road in Owerri.
A senior officer of NIS, who confirmed the incident, said the slain officer’s corpse was discovered in a bush on Sunday morning.
Mrere was driving a Hilux van belonging to NIS when he was allegedly waylaid, shot and killed.
A source said that the assailants did not take the victim’s service pistol as it was found on him when his corpse was discovered, the next day.
The official Hilux van that he was driving when he was attacked was riddled with bullet holes, according to the source.
The source said, “The chief provost of Nigerian Immigration Service, Imo State Command, Okiemute Mrere, has been assassinated. He was killed on Saturday night. He was riding in his official Hilux van when he was attacked, shot and killed.
“His corpse was discovered the next day which was on Sunday morning. Nothing was taken from him, not even his service pistol. His vehicle was riddled in bullets holes. The command is quiet. There is panic as officers are dumbfounded
by this tragic development.”
The command’s Public Relations Officer, Winifred Ogu, refused to take several calls put to her telephone by our correspondent.
She had yet to respond to a text message sent to her as of the time of filing this report but another senior officer confirmed the murder.
The state Commissioner of Police, Abutu Yaro, told our correspondent on Monday morning that, “I do not have the brief”. (The Punch)
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