Gunmen Kill Assistant Police Commissioner Visiting Family In Cross River
Unidentified persons have hacked an Assistant Commissioner of Police, to death in Calabar, Cross River State. The victim was serving in No. 73 PMF Squadron, Magumeri, Bornu State. It was gathered that the police officer was hacked to death around 1am on Wednesday on the Murtala Mohammed Highway, close to the Pepsi depot in Calabar. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state confirmed the incident. The PPRO said the Assistant Commissioner of Police came to Calabar to see his family but arrived late at night. “He desembarked from a public transport and called his wife to pick him up before he was attacked by the unknown men. We are investigating the incident and the family has recovered the body from the scene.”