The Rivers State Police Command said its operatives have arrested a 31-year-old man, Kelechi Wufurum, for allegedly killing a commercial bus driver identified as Ifeanyi Abobo in Ubima, Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state. The victim, aged 51, was said to have been lured to Ubima community under the pretence of a transport job, unknown to the minibus driver that Wufurum had sinister motives. Iringe-Koko said the suspect and the victim had an initial fight before the former used a cutlass on the minibus driver near a forest and thereafter sold his minibus for N2.4 million. The victim collapsed, so he now zoomed off with his mini-bus and sold the bus and his mobile phone. “I negotiated with a bus driver that we are going to work.

Source: Punch April 07, 2026 19:31 UTC