Expectedly, there has been sporadic gunfire throughout last night up to the early hours of Friday, with residents including a Journalist and his family calling for help as people were running helter and skelter for safety amidst booming gunfire.
Soldiers have
been deployed to the crisis-ridden Oyigbo area of Rivers State, where over 500
suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, attacked and burnt
two Police Stations and 15 cars, including an Armoured Personnel Carrier, APC
on Wednesday.
In one of the
posts sent by the affected journalist to his colleagues, “From last night till
now guys help us … gunfire ranging. I learnt they have evacuated the
expatriates working in the Afam Power Station last in Oyigbo night.”
Also sources
have confirmed that shootings have continued in parts of Oyigbo and Iriebe in
Obio-Akpor LG since last night.
Meanwhile the
Police Command in a press statement on Thursday said “hoodlums numbering about
500 suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra
(IPOB) invaded the Oyigbo Area Command, Oyigbo and Afam Police Stations,
setting them ablaze and damaging about fifteen vehicles, including one Armoured
Personnel Carrier (APC), with two police officers killed and some arms and
ammunition carted away by the hoodlums”.
The police
had said that “in another attack at the Mile one Police Station, the same
rampaging IPOB members who operated under the guise of #EndSARS protests made
frantic attempt at burning the Mile One Police Station and the office of Eagle
Crack Squad but were however repelled by the superior fire power of the police,
as three of them were fatally wounded in the exchange of gunfire, while eight
of them were arrested and immediately transferred to State CID where they are
currently helping in our investigation.”
Governor
Nyesom Wike had declared 24-hour curfew in entire Oyigbo LG and other parts of
the state on Wednesday in a statewide broadcast.
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