*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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