Rivers: Group seeks probe of security guard killed on duty by customer

An advocacy group in Rivers State, Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign, has called for an investigation into the killing of one Mr Ifeanyi Ani, by a customer who came to the eatery he worked as a guard.

The deceased, a father of three who hails from Enugu State worked as a security guard at an eatery in Rumukwurushi, in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state.

He was allegedly beaten to death by a customer following an altercation arising from argument outside the premises of the eatery.

The deceased security guard was said to have attempted to call the attention of the driver to the fact that his headlamp was on only to meet the man’s wife in the car, and passed the message to her.

On seeing Ani talking with his wife, the man was said to have been enraged, asking him what he was discussing with her, leading to an altercation.

The man was said to have punched the deceased, who collapsed and eventually died, a development that has led the Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign, to call for an investigation and that an autopsy be immediately carried out on the victim’s corpse.

Though the customer has been arrested and handed over to Mini-Okoro Police Division, but the family of the deceased has not relented in their demand for justice.

The group’s national president, Mr. Prince Wiro said: “On the alleged killing of the security guard of an eatery, Ifeanyi Ani, by a customer in Port Harcourt, we demand a thorough and unbiased investigation by the police to unravel what led to the security guard’s death.

“We equally demand that an autopsy should immediately be concluded on the corpse of Ifeanyi Ani and if the customer is found culpable he should be made to face the law.”