Sea Piracy Worries Monarch

Worried by the recent activities of some miscreants suspected to be  sea pirates operating within the Kalabari waterways and creeks in Rivers State, the Amayanabo of Kalabari kingdom, King Theophilus  Jacob Tom Princewill, the Amachree the 11th, has called for security surveillance of the area inorder to checkmate and bring the perpetrators to book.

King Princewill, who made the call when some executives and members of the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), Rivers State Command   paid him a courtesy  visit in his palace at Buguma on Wednesday said the situation had become an eyesore as it was affecting the social and economic life of the people of Kalabari and indeed  those at the Bakana axis.

According to him, the miscreants are making life miserable  to the people as their means of water transportation had become a   serious threat  because the live and properties of such passengers are no longer safe.

He said travelling from Port Harcourt to the Kalabari communities through speed boats which is shorter and easier  has  become a big challenge  as the miscreants at times attacked them, confiscate their  belongings and even off-load the passengers at the mangrove swamp, and seized the boat and their properties  away, thereby making them to be stranded at the swamp for days except they were rescued by either  fishermen.

The Royal father therefore appealed to the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba and other security outfits to help get rid of these  cankerworms and arrest the ugly situation  now  causing a sleepless  nights to the people of Kalabari kingdom.

Earlier, the state chairman of PCRC, Hon Austen Yong  told the monarch that they were in his Palace to brief him on the need of Police community forum, community policing and mutual relationship between the police and people of  the community as well as confer on him a patron of the body.

Collins Barasimeye