The Police Headquarters has ordered the probe of the gruesome murder of Mr. Mathew Akpos, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, attached to the Bayelsa State Command allegedly by a “special police squad”.

It was learnt that the Force Headquarters has mandated the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 5 to investigate the circumstances that led to the killing of Akpos in Yenagoa.

Due to the directive, the police were said to have constituted a team to probe the incident and to unmask the persons behind the murder.

It was learnt that three policemen, suspected to have been involved in the operation, had been arrested and were being investigated over the incident.

A security source, who did not want to be mentioned, said the incident was embarrassing and described it as a case of mistaken identity.

“The killing of the officer is embarrassing and shocking to the police. Some persons have been arrested and investigations are going on,” he stated.

Efforts to contact the Police Public Relations Officer, Bayelsa State Command, Mr. Asinim Butswat, were unsuccessful as his mobile phone indicated that it was switched off.

Akpos was gunned down last Monday by men believed to have come from an unknown division of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.

He was killed close to the OMPADEC school field in Amarata area of Yenagoa, the state capital.

The victim, who was said to have once worked at Ologbobiri, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state, was prior to his death, working at the State Intelligence Bureau in the state command in Yenagoa.

Stray bullets from the gunshots fired at the scene of the incident hit an elderly woman, who is a trader in the area on the leg and stomach.

The woman, however, cheated death following multiple surgeries she received at the Federal Medical Centre.

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