By Emem Idio

YENAGOA—The Amungo family of Adubabiri compound of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has appealed to the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs. Ebiegberi Ejor (nee Amungo).

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The family of the deceased, in a petition by Dr. Ebimo Amungo, on behalf of the family to Force Headquarters in Abuja, regretted that it had lost faith in the ability of the police officers of Rivers State Police Command to find the true killers and probable cause of the death of Mrs. Ejor, who was allegedly murdered with her business partner.

In the petition, the Amungo family gave full details of how Mrs. Ejor, the proprietor of Ebilabelle Fashion House and Big Sky School, was found dead by the police in a hotel room with her business partner, contrary to news that had been released to the public that she was abducted by kidnappers and murdered by political opponents of her husband.

The petition read: “On July 6, the Manager of Ugalink Hotel, situated in 9/11 Odumini Lane, Road 24 Extension A, Agip Estate, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, reported to the Ada George Road Police Division the discovery of two dead persons in one of the rooms of the hotel.”

It was further disclosed that a police team sent from the division identified the dead persons as Mrs. Ebiegberi Ejor (nee Amungo), a 41-year-old mother of four children married to a prominent businessman in Rivers State and former Eleme Local Government Chairman, Chief Ejor Ngowa Ejor.

The family accused the policemen investigating the case of showing “gross negligence and incompetence” for a number of reasons which they listed to include the fact that the whole basis of the police investigation was directed at only one conclusion, which is that both deceased were electrocuted while having a bath  in the shower.”

The Amungo Family is praying the Inspector-General of Police to appoint a seasoned police officer outside the Rivers State Police Command to investigate the death of Mrs. Ejor and Mr. Harrison.

It also requested that a second autopsy be conducted on the deceased, appealing to the IGP to direct that the police investigate the deaths of Mrs. Ejor and Mr. Harrison as murder and apprehend those responsible for their deaths.