Two persons were shot dead yesterday by rampaging youths in Okposi, near Omoku in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, in a political-related operation.
This is even as the state police command has arrested 92 suspected cultists and four alleged robbers.
The victims, whose identities could not be ascertained as at Press time, were shot dead, following the burning of the house of an aide to a commissioner in the state.
One of the arsonists, who was later apprehended in the mayhem, confessed that he took the action because the commissioner’s aide refused to include his name in the Subsidy and Re-Investment Programme (SURE-P) list.
The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ahmad Muhammad, a Deputy Superintendent, confirmed the incident. He said the crisis was a spill-over of the violence that erupted on Monday.
Muhammad stated that normalcy has been restored in the area, following the deployment of six troopers.
Meanwhile, police yesterday, paraded four suspected armed robbers and 92 cultists at the Swift Operation Squad (SOS) premises in Port Harcourt. They were arrested at different locations.
According to the PPRO, who briefed journalists, the four robbery suspects were nabbed on Monday at Akpajo police-check point at about 4: 30am while returning to Port Harcourt from a robbery operation in Akwa Ibom State.
He said that items recovered from them were a Sienna bus, marked RH 339 CH, N1.6 million cash, three locally-made pistols, one revolver, ammunition, 17 phones and an international passport.
Similarly, items recovered from the 92 suspected cultists include assorted firearms and ammunition, cutlasses, charms and other lethal weapons.
The command, however, decried the upsurge of cultism in the state, assuring that it would sustain its “belligerent and ruthless” onslaught on the suspects and their patrons.
“Their nefarious and deadly activities, which, sometimes, were attributed to politics, have, no doubt, constituted a nuisance to the general public and have the capacity to truncate the electoral process,” he said
This is even as the state police command has arrested 92 suspected cultists and four alleged robbers.
The victims, whose identities could not be ascertained as at Press time, were shot dead, following the burning of the house of an aide to a commissioner in the state.
One of the arsonists, who was later apprehended in the mayhem, confessed that he took the action because the commissioner’s aide refused to include his name in the Subsidy and Re-Investment Programme (SURE-P) list.
The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ahmad Muhammad, a Deputy Superintendent, confirmed the incident. He said the crisis was a spill-over of the violence that erupted on Monday.
Muhammad stated that normalcy has been restored in the area, following the deployment of six troopers.
Meanwhile, police yesterday, paraded four suspected armed robbers and 92 cultists at the Swift Operation Squad (SOS) premises in Port Harcourt. They were arrested at different locations.
According to the PPRO, who briefed journalists, the four robbery suspects were nabbed on Monday at Akpajo police-check point at about 4: 30am while returning to Port Harcourt from a robbery operation in Akwa Ibom State.
He said that items recovered from them were a Sienna bus, marked RH 339 CH, N1.6 million cash, three locally-made pistols, one revolver, ammunition, 17 phones and an international passport.
Similarly, items recovered from the 92 suspected cultists include assorted firearms and ammunition, cutlasses, charms and other lethal weapons.
The command, however, decried the upsurge of cultism in the state, assuring that it would sustain its “belligerent and ruthless” onslaught on the suspects and their patrons.
“Their nefarious and deadly activities, which, sometimes, were attributed to politics, have, no doubt, constituted a nuisance to the general public and have the capacity to truncate the electoral process,” he said
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