Wike bans Igbo group Assembly in Oyigbo
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has Prohibited a planned Assembly of Several Igbo residents from the Oyigbo Local Government Area of the Country.
The suggested meeting was banned over concerns such assembly could ignite new unrest in the region.
In a statement signed by Paulinus Nsirim, the State Commissioner for Information and Communications, the authorities led security agencies”to make sure that the stated assembly doesn’t have to forestall a breakdown of law and order in the field”.
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Although the government isn’t certain about any safety issue, Oyigbo local government area which shares border with Abia country is regarded as a stronghold of the Native People of Biafra (IPOB), a proscribed group that the authorities claims is accountable for its attacks on police officers along with its own centers in the region shortly after the #EndSARS protest in October 2020.
The strikes resulted in a military operation where soldiers and civilians were murdered.
Aside from Oyigbo’s delicate nature after the October episode, the assembly of the community is coming up in a time once the country is grappling with strikes on police formations in Imo, which happens to be a different state that shares a border with Rivers.
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The supposed kidnappers were nabbed from the exceptional anti-kidnap group of their FCT Police Control. They’ll be arraigned in the conclusion of investigation.
Aigbefor battled the Turks in his flat in Tungan Maje, in Zuba axis of Abuja. The gang gained access after shattering the entry door of the living area with bullets.
Nevertheless, they hurried out following a police group responded to a distress call and hauled the region.
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At a footage obtained by PRNigeria, Igbefo stated he participated the gunmen for half an hour, before men of this neighborhood vigilante group and the authorities came.
I managed to fight even though they had been wielding weapons that are dangerous. Using just a machete, I managed to attack, injured among the kidnappers.
“As you can see, these are bloodstains on the ground and walls of the living space,” he explained in recording.
