……..As CP assures of diligent investigation, justice
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 Lennard, are brought to book.
A statement on Sunday, March 19th, 2023, signed by the Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, said that, from the information gathered, the Campaign DG was shot by yet-to-be-identified gunmen in the afternoon of Saturday, March 18, 2023.
The Commissioner of Police commiserates with the families of the bereaved and has promised to bring the perpetrators of such a heinous crime to justice.
Recall that the late Hon. Chisom Lennard was abducted from his unit at Ibagwa polling unit 2, Ward 10, in Ahoada West LGA during the voting process and taken away.
It was later in the evening of yesterday (Saturday) that his body was discovered.
