Human Rights Day: Tension as Police kill 'school boy' over N100 bribe
By Egufe Yafugborhi, Port-Harcourt The World Human Rights Day was marked in atmosphere of tension in Port Harcourt, Rivers State Thursday as a policeman shot dead a Keke rider over alleged N100 checkpoint extortion. Two more persons were feared killed as police, joined by vigilante repelled an angry mob’s attempt to torch the Rumuokoro Police Divisional Office whose personnel was said to have killed the tricycle rider. Police Public Relations Officer, Rivers Command, Nnamdi Omoni, said the officer who shot the victim has been arrested as the police made frantic efforts at easing tension gen...