{"id":3598,"date":"2025-04-23T09:12:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:12:33","slug":"horror-how-police-orderly-to-ex-mayor-of-port-harcourt-shoots-self-dead-as-cp-adepoju-orders-investigation-into-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/horror-how-police-orderly-to-ex-mayor-of-port-harcourt-shoots-self-dead-as-cp-adepoju-orders-investigation-into-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror: How Police Orderly To Ex-Mayor of Port Harcourt Shoots Self Dead   &#8230;&#8230;.As CP Adepoju orders investigation into incident\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By Our Reporter<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">An Inspector of Police,Maxwell Zabu, an orderly to a former Mayor of Port Harcourt City, in Rivers State, Hon. Victor Ihunwo, has reportedly shot himself dead.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3600\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3600\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250422-WA0041-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250422-WA0041-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250422-WA0041.jpg 593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rivers state CP, Olugbenga Adepoju<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The incident happened on Tuesday at the private residence of the ex-Port Harcourt Mayor, Ihunwo located at Eagle Island in Port Harcourt City local government area of Rivers State.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Meanwhile,details surrounding the death of the policeman still\u00a0 remains sketchy as at press time, but the incident, Daily Echoes Media gathered was immediately reported to the Eagle Island Police post which is under the Azikiwe Police Division.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">When our reporter visited the area, he observed detectives from the Azikiwe Police Division at the scene conducting preliminary investigation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Confirming the incident to Journalists, the Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, disclosed that preliminary investigation at the scene suggests the deceased police officer may have killed himself.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">She added that the State Commissioner of Police, CP Olugbenga Adepoju has ordered detailed investigation to ascertain what actually transpired leading to the incident, as well as transfer of the case to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Port Harcourt.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Reporter An Inspector of Police,Maxwell Zabu, an orderly to a former Mayor of Port Harcourt City, in Rivers State, Hon. Victor Ihunwo, has reportedly shot himself dead. The incident happened on Tuesday at the private residence of the ex-Port Harcourt Mayor, Ihunwo located at Eagle Island in Port Harcourt City local government area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[992,2330,2329,1375],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-crime","tag-investigate","tag-preliminary","tag-residence","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}