Ijaw youths condole with military
Security operatives in Benin City, Edo
State have arrested three suspected
former militant leaders allegedly in
possession of two AK47 riffles.
The trio are in custody at the state’s
Criminal Investigation Department
(SCID) pending their arraignment
tomorrow.
When Contacted, the Police Public Relations
Officer (PPRO), Theodore Okafor, said
he was yet to be briefed on the
development.
However, reports have gone viral on
the social media alluding that some
suspected militants were arrested in an
hotel owned by the Commissioner for
Justice, Henry Idahagbon.
Reacting, he said the ‘fabrication’ was
to divert attention from the arrest of
one their “imported Generals.
“My attention was drawn through
innumerable calls to a mischievous
publication on the Facebook page of
one Ogbeide Ifaluyi Isibor to the effect
that the DSS arrested 61 militants in my
motel. Some days ago, the same fellow
also caused to be published that I was
buying PVCs within the premises of the
Ministry of Justice.
“The PDP, having failed woefully to
persuade Edo people to return to Egypt,
has resorted to spinning false stories
and marketing same online. We are
daily being assailed by different
fabricated stories. If the deputy
governor wasn’t engaged in a shouting
match with the governor, the
Commissioner for Information, Kassim
Afegbua, will be endorsing one of their
two candidates.”
Meanwhile, the Ijaw Youth Council
(IYC) has sympathised with the Nigerian
Army for casualties recorded so far in
its quest to secure oil facilities in the
Niger Delta.
The group’s factional president, Elvis
Donkemezuo, while speaking yesterday
in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, enjoined
the Federal Government not to involve
militants in any of its plans to bring
development to the region, saying such
action would be counter-productive.
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