Unidentified gunmen have gone out of control in Rivers State
communities, slaying a native doctor, senior lecturer, female student
and four villagers.
According to a shocking report on Vanguard, a native doctor, senior
lecturer, female student and four villagers in the last few weeks, have
been gruesomely murdered by gunmen at Ula Upata, Edioha, Ogoni and
Yeghe communities in Rivers State.
The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, who is worried by
the spate of the incessant attacks, has ordered deployment of a special
homicide team to Port-Harcourt, capital of Rivers state, to assist the
Rivers State Police Command crack down on the killer-gang.
Niger Delta Voice reported that about 30 armed men, penultimate
Saturday, stormed Ula Upata and neighbouring Edioha communities in
Ahoada East local government area of the state and wreaked havoc on
Saturday.
It was gathered that the gangsters practically descended on the
Zion Nwoka family and snuffed life out of 62-year-old Mrs. Monica Zion,
Gospel Nwoka, 45, Mrs. Patricia Ziko, 42 and Rogers Nwoka, 28.
Even as police confirmed the worrisome deaths, nobody could say the
reason for the bloodletting, as the killers extended their offensive to
Edioha community, where they allegedly clubbed a native doctor to
death.
It was also learnt that a similar incident occurred in Ula Upata
about two months ago when suspected cultists invaded the area, killing
about eight persons. Tailed from Bori to Yeghe Besides the Ula Upata and
Edioha invasion, the gunmen trailed a senior lecturer of Ken Saro Wiwa
Polytechnic Polytechnic, Dr. Vincent Eebee on his way to Port-Harcourt
and shot him dead.
According to reports, they trailed him from the Polytechnic in Bori
and started shooting at his vehicle after he drove past Birabi Memorial
Grammer School, BMGS, on the Bori-Yeghe road. A female passenger in his
vehicle identified as a student of the Polytechnic also died in the sad
incident.
Eyewitnesses said the late Dr Eebee managed to drive to Yeghe
community and bolted from his car, but the assailants allegedly caught
up with him and ensured he was dead before they sped off in a black SUV.
Meanwhile, the police have deployed special homicide detectives to
fish out the rampaging killer- gangs in Rivers. Arase told reporters in
Port Harcourt: “Criminal gangs cannot overwhelm a state or a
country, it is never done. I can assure the people of the country that
we will clamp down on these gangs; we will amputate them from our
society.
“They are being investigated at the state by the state Police
command, but I have also dispatched a team of homicide investigators
from Abuja. When things like this happen, there are always different
accounts to it. I have said the police will always be apolitical and
professional at all times with our operations and investigations,” he asserted

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