By Towncriernews
A popular Politician of Delta State decent, Hon. Joan Mrakpo has been killed by suspected gunmen, and her body found dead at Niger Bridge, Onitsha.
It was gathered that the gunmen, Mrakpo met her untimely death when she was forcefully abducted by suspected gunmen near her Church in Asaba, capital of Delta State.
He was a former member representing Aniocha/Oshimili Federal constituency in the Federal House of Representatives; former member, representing Aniocha South in the Delta State House of Assembly: and Commissioner for Technical Education in the state.
She was reportedly murdered her and her body found around the Onitsha end of the Niger Bridge.
A source with knowledge of the development, who asked not to be named, disclosed that her remains were found with heavy bruises, suggesting she was brutalised and tortured before her death.
“She was found dead and fully stripped with severe wounds around 7.30 pm on Thursday. I think she was battered to death”, the source was quited to have said.
The Delta State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Bright Edafe, confirmed that the politician was kidnapped in her Church, located off Delta Broadcasting Service in Asaba, at about 5 pm on Tuesday.
It was also reported that on Tuesday two persons, including her police orderly, were killed in the bloody operation.
She was said to been whisked away by the gunmen to the bank of the River Niger at Otu-Ogwu road of Asaba in a car which was set the vehicle ablaze before taking her into a speed boat.
Born on July 7, 1966, Mrakpor, a Christian Evangelist and politician of Anioma heritage, was a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and has since 2015 represented Aniocha North-Aniocha South-Oshimili North-Oshimili South in the House of Representatives.
Prior to her election into the national assembly, Mrakpor served as a member of the Delta State House of Assembly for Aniocha South from 2007 to 2015.
The 58-year-old is the immediate past Commissioner for Technical Education in Delta State, and married to Peter Mrakpor, a lawyer and former Delta State Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice.