A somber atmosphere engulfed Eagle Island in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, following the alleged suicide of a police inspector, Maxwell Zabu.
The officer was reported to have taken his own life at the residence of a former Chairman of Port Harcourt Local Government Area in the early hours of Tuesday, April 22.
Sources revealed that the case was promptly reported to the Police post at Eagle Island, which operates under the Azikiwe Police Division.
Officers from the division swiftly moved to the location to begin preliminary investigations.
Confirming the development, the spokesperson for the Rivers State Police Command, Superintendent of Police Grace Iringe-Koko, noted that it is being treated as a suspected case of suicide.
“It is suspected that the Police officer killed himself,” she stated.
Nevertheless, the command emphasized that investigations were still ongoing to determine the exact circumstances of the incident.
Meanwhile, in a decisive move to ensure a thorough investigation, the Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, CP Olugbenga Adepoju, has ordered the case to be handed over to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Port Harcourt.
