How a School Proprietress & Business Partner Were Electrocuted to Death in Portharcourt Hotel Room

According to police report, Mrs. Ebiegberi Ejor and her male Business partner were both found dead naked on the floor in the position of an embrace with the shower in-between their bodies at the entrance of the shower cubicle.

Late Mrs. Ebiegberi Ejor (Nee Amungo)

ate Mrs. Ebiegberi Ejor

In an appeal to the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, the Amungo Family of Adubabiri compound in Southern Ijaw LGA of Bayelsa State, has asked the Police IG to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Ebiegberi Ejor (nee Amungo).

In a petition signed by Dr. Ebimo Amungo, on behalf of the family, they stated that they have lost faith in the ability of officers at the Rivers State Police Command to find the true killers and determine probable cause of the death of Mrs. Ejor, who, the family believes, was murdered with her business partner.

The deceased who is the proprietress of Ebilabelle Fashion House and Big Sky School, was found dead by the Police in a hotel room with her business partner.

Below is a statatement from the family they sent to the Police IG;

"On the 6th of July, 2015, 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 allegedly owned by a top law maker in the state.

It was further disclosed that a police team sent from the division identified the dead persons as Mrs. Ebiegberi Ejor, a 41 year-old mother of four children married to a prominent business man in Rivers State and former chairman of Eleme Local government.

The deceased male was identified as Mr. Freedom Rondue Harrison, a Nigerian-born, France-based, known business associate of Mrs. Ejor’s. They were both found naked on the floor in the position of an embrace with the shower in-between their bodies at the entrance of the shower cubicle.

The policemen at the scene took pictures of the deceased, their clothing and other evidence in the hotel room. Then Commissioner of Police in the state went personally to the husband’s residence to inform him of his wife’s death on the evening of 6th of July. Two persons were sent to the hotel room to confirm the identity of the deceased.

One was a close aide of the deceased’s husband and the other was Mrs. Ejor’s mother. Thereafter, the policemen evacuated the corpses to the morgue at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) and both bodies were embalmed.

On Tuesday, 7th July, 2015, the Commissioner of Police secured a magistrate’s order for an autopsy to be conducted on Mrs. Ejor and on Wednesday, July 8th, the autopsy was conducted at UPTH by one Dr. Obiorah and was witnessed by a representative of the deceased’s husband, and the younger brother of the deceased. The report of the autopsy concluded that Mrs. Ejor died of electrocution.

However, we reject the theory of the police that both deceased were electrocuted while having a bath together in the hotel shower cubicle. This is because from what we gathered so far, both Mrs. Ejor and Mr. Harrison were murdered and their bodies planted in the hotel room in a manner to create the impression that they were electrocuted while having a bath.

The theory of electrocution while having a bath is spurious and hard to believe, especially with evidence at the scene, and crucially, evidence on the photographs supplied by the police."

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 so far is directed towards only one conclusion-which is that both deceased were electrocuted while having a bath in the shower.'