{"id":68310,"date":"2025-06-17T16:58:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68310"},"modified":"2025-06-17T16:58:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:58:25","slug":"police-arrest-suspected-killer-of-former-dpo-in-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/17\/police-arrest-suspected-killer-of-former-dpo-in-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Suspected Killer of Former DPO in Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested a suspected member of a notorious cult group linked to the killing of a former Divisional Police Officer (DPO), of Ahoada Police Division, SP Bako Angbashim.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by the command\u2019s spokesperson, Grace Iringe-Koko, the suspect identified as a member of the Iceland cult group was apprehended following credible intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The group has reportedly been terrorizing the Ahoada area of Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>According to Iringe-Koko, in May, police operatives received information about the whereabouts of the suspect, popularly known as K1.<\/p>\n<p>He is believed to be a member of the Iceland cult led by the late Gift David Okpara, alias 2Baba, who was implicated in the brutal murder of SP Angbashim.<\/p>\n<p>The police team swiftly stormed a camp in Ikata Community, Ahoada East Local Government Area, and arrested one Lovegod Goodluck, a male resident of the community.<\/p>\n<p>During the operation, a locally made single-barrel gun and two live cartridges were recovered.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate but related operation, another male suspect, Precious Olumini, who had previously escaped arrest was also apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>Police recovered an English-made pump-action gun and a locally made pistol from him.<\/p>\n<p>Iringe-Koko confirmed that both suspects confessed to being members of the Iceland cult group that has been terrorizing the Ahoada East axis. They are currently in police custody.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suspects and exhibits are in custody. Investigation is ongoing, and efforts are being intensified to apprehend other fleeing members of the syndicate and recover additional weapons,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested a suspected member of a notorious cult group linked to the killing of a former Divisional Police Officer (DPO), of Ahoada Police Division, SP Bako Angbashim. In a statement issued by the command\u2019s spokesperson, Grace Iringe-Koko, the suspect identified as a member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68311,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68310\/revisions\/68311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}