*FG won’t tolerate
violence in Rivers – GOC
The General Officer
Commanding (GOC) newly-created 6 Division in Port Harcourt, Rivers State,
Maj.-Gen. Kasimu Abdulkarim, yesterday displayed the AK-47 rifle and
uniforms
of Mohammed Alkali, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of Mobile Police
Unit 48 and his orderly, Sgt. Urukwu Nwachukwu.
Alkali and Nwachukwu
were beheaded during the December 10 bloody legislative rerun in the
Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni area of Rivers State.
The state Chairman
of PDP, Felix Obuah, is an indigene of the area.
The GOC warned
against violation of Army’s clean-up operation in the crude oil and gas-rich
Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area, where he said innocent persons were
killed daily by militants and cultists.
The GOC said workers
of oil companies and others had become apprehensive and were relocating from
the area because of the development.
He said the Federal
Government would provide tight security in all parts of Rivers.
Abdulkarim stressed
that the trend of violence in the state could not be left unchecked.
The GOC displayed
the arms, ammunition and other items recovered from hoodlums in the area.
He also paraded one
of the suspects, saying others had been handed over to police for prosecution.
Abdulkarim said:
“Four of the suspected criminals’ camps located across the river in Ujju Town
near Omoku (headquarters of the LGA) were raided on December 31, 2016. In the
raid operations, 6 Division troops, in conjunction with Operation Delta Safe
Special Boat Service and air component, engaged the suspected criminals in
severe exchange of fire, in which they were dislodged. This led to the arrest
of suspects.
“Ammunition,
uniforms and weapons were recovered. The late DSP Mohammed Alkali with his
orderly, Sgt. Urukwu Nwachukwu’s AK-47 rifle and uniforms, as evidenced in the
name tags, were also recovered.
“The large cache of
ammunition and weapons recovered in the operation also include one AK-47 rifle,
two G3 rifles, five double-barrelled guns, two pistols, 31 empty AK-47
magazines, 242 rounds of 7.62 mm NATO and 322 rounds of other ammunition
calibre.
“Other recovered
items include 31 handsets, bullet-proof jackets, Automated Teller Machine (ATM)
cards, first aid box and seven police uniforms."
So, despite all the
arms surrendered in Rivers recently, the political thugs are still fully armed?
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