By: Felix Ikpotor
Reports say five of the suspects who have been arrested in connection with the alleged assassination of a Port Harcourt based Human Right Activist, Ken Atsuwete, have been transferred to Force Headquarters in Abuja for investigations.
Sources say the transfer was in compliance with the directives by the Inspector General of Police Monitoring Unit responsible for the arrest.
Police disclosed that the suspected assassins including one who claimed he pulled the trigger on the victim had made confessional statements, adding that preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects were earlier kept in the custody of Special Anti-Robbery Squad before moving them to the state criminal investigation Department Headquarters in Port Harcourt and thereafter moved to Abuja for further investigations.
The source said the suspects were meant to be paraded sometime last week but for the incident between the DSS and the Judges, stressing that it took a lot of time to decide whether to even parade them or not.
It would be recalled that Atsuwete was murdered few months ago by unknown gunmen in Aluu in Ikwerre Local government area of Rivers state.
