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The police have identified the expatriate that drowned when his car plunged into Okulu River, Aleto, Eleme on the East Road on Monday night.
The body was recovered from the river about 4pm on Tuesday, following a combined operation by the Eleme Local Government, the Marine Unit of the Nigerian Police Force, the Nigerian Navy, Federal Road Safety Corps and the National Emergency Management Agency.

The Rivers State Police Relations Officer, Grace Iringe-Koko, identified the deceased as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Rivers State Cassava Project Limited, Gibson Reuben.
The vehicle had plunged into the Okulu River in Aleto on the Eleme axis of the East-West Road in Rivers State Monday night, while trying to escape from an ambush by a gang of suspected kidnappers.
Iringe-Koko said the mobile police personnel who accompanied Mr Reuben managed to escape. She also said the Commissioner of Police, CP Olugbenga Adepoju, who visited the scene, has ordered full investigation into the incident.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of Eleme Local Government, Brain Gokpa, has called for an urgent Federal Government intervention to complete work on that section of the East-West Road.
