Police DPO Arrested After 200-Level UNIPORT Ritualist Escaped From Police Custody

 Following the shock escape of a suspected ritualist from police cell, a police DPO has been arrested over the incident.

The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zaki Mohammed Ahmed has ordered the arrest of the Divisional Police Officer in connection with the escape of a suspected ritualist and rapist, Ifeanyichukwu Maxwell Dike, from police detention.

Dike, a 200 level student of University of Port Harcourt was arrested by Okporo Police Station in Port Harcourt while trying to dispose the dismembered body of his eight year-old female relative, Chikamso Victory, he had r*ped and dismembered for ritual purposes.

Also, a Police Inspector (names withheld) who led to the team of policemen that brought to suspect to the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Port Harcourt, where he was handed over to the Investigating Police Officer (IPO), former Sergeant JohnBosco Okoroeze.

Okoroeze, who has already been dismissed from the Police, was last Friday arraigned and remanded in prison custody by a Chief Magistrate Court for allegedly aiding the escape of Dike.

According to, a source at the SCID headquarters in Port Harcourt told newsmen that the DPO and Inspector were arrested following revelations that they were in the know of what would happen before the escape of the suspect.

The source said, “The father of the victim was uncomfortable when the police team stopped on the road for the Inspector to answer a call. It was later found out that it was the DPO who called him to expect a call from an IPO, who will be in charge of the case.

“When the Inspector’s phone was checked, there was a call from one JohnBosco, who was the IPO and by the rules of the force, a DPO cannot assign an IPO to a matter that is no longer under him. So, the DPO and Inspector were invited and arrested.”

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police Zaki Mohammed Ahmed, has assured that he is committed to rearresting the suspected and getting every other person involved in the murder of the girl arrested.

Ahmed, who addressed newsmen in Port Harcourt yesterday, said Okoroeze was dismissed from the force and charged to court for accessory after the fact to murder, perverting the course of Justice and permitting the escape of a murder suspect and has been remanded in prison custody.

The Commissioner of Police said, “The event however of 19th August, 2017 in which a suspected ritualist, Ifeanyi Chukwu Maxwell Dike, a 200 Level Student of University of Port Harcourt, where one Victoria Chikamzo Mesu was killed and dismembered for alleged ritual purposes, is unfortunate and highly regretted.