Face of suspected serial killer unmasked … Varying photos hit the internet

Daniel Efe/Port Harcourt

Rivers State Police Command is expected to comment on Photos and footage from Close Circuit Television Cameras, CCTV cameras of a hotel in Port Harcourt to confirm the veracity of photos of suspected Serial killer have surfaced on the internet last night.

According to the reports circulating online, on Wednesday, evening suggest that one of the suspects behind the recent serial killings in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State, has been unmasked.

Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, a CNN award winning Journalist, Publisher and former Commissioner for Information and Communications in Rivers are among those who have shared the photo and footage online.

Mrs. Semenitari, who was former Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) posted on her Facebook wall: “This is the face of the alleged serial killer in Port Harcourt, Rivers state from the CCTV video. Facebook name: Gracious David West”.

Another post credited to the Apostle Chibuzor Gift Chinyere, General Overseer, Omega Power Ministry-OPM said: “This same Gracious David West was an ex-militant and a renowned armed robber that was rehabilitated by OPM church… The church even helped him to secure a job in Federal university of Technology, but went there to steal properties belonging to students and bolted.

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Some of photos posted online

He is said to be the only son among his siblings who are girls. He said to have continued in perpetrating crime and he was subsequently declared wanted by the police in June 2018.

At time of filing the report, the Police have not reacted buzzing photos.