Vigilante Shoots Man Dead For Wooing Girlfriend In Rivers

The Police Command in Rivers State has said they were handling a case in which a vigilante shot a man dead for making advances at his girlfriend.

Briefing newsmen in Port Harcourt, state Commissioner of Police, Nwonyi Emeka, warned against excesses of vigilantes in the state, as the Police tagged most members of the popular vigilante group, as criminals.

Deputy Commissioner of Police, Victor Erivwede, in charge of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCIID, said that there are many human rights abuses by the vigilante group.

CP Emeka, while reading the riot act to vigilantes across the state states that the force will not tolerate jungle justice from vigilantes. adding that tyranny among vigilantes must be curtailed.