The Rivers State Police Command says it has set up a panel to investigate a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) accused of owning an illegal refinery in Rivers State.
A statement issued Sunday, January 16 by the acting State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Grace Iringe-Koko, said the unnamed DPO has been “immediately redeployed and a panel headed by an assistant commissioner of police inaugurated to investigate the matter.”
According to the statement signed by the Acting State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Grace Iringe-Koko, the outcome of the investigation shall be made public and the officer will be punished appropriately if the allegations are confirmed.
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Governor Nyesom Wike had raised the alarm last week and demanded redeployment of the DPO, who was in charge of a division in a community called Rumuji in the Emohua Local Government Area.
Wike alleged that the DPO was operating one of the oil wells.
