Police Set Up Committee Over Eleme/Ogu Crisis

The Nigerian Police Bori
Area Command, Rivers State has constituted a five-man working committee with a view to ending the perennial Eleme and Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area communal crisis.
The Bori Area Commander of Nigeria Police, state command ACP Abutu Yaro stated this while speaking with journalist shortly after a security peace meeting he held with the representatives of the two local government areas at the command headquarters, Bori in Khana Local Government Area of the state, over the weekend.
ACP Yaro disclosed that the constitution of the committee was the outcome of the meeting where all the participants agreed that the setting up of the committee would help to achieve the desired peace and security in the two neighbouring local government areas. According to him, two persons from each of the local government, which include the council chairmen, the chairmen of the various local government traditional rulers council as well as the Commander of Bori Area are members of the committee adding that he was optimistic that peace was feasible in the affected areas.
Also peaking, the Chairman, Care-taker committee Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area Dame Maureen Tamuno who spoke through her chief of staff, Mr. Stephen Abolo said the committee was set up to look into the problem with a view to bringing lasting peace in the two LGAs, adding that the police had assured of their readiness to ensure that the problem is solved.
Mr. Abolo averred that at the moment, there was no crisis between the people of Ekporu in Eleme and their brothers from Ogu/Bolo areas adding that the purported crisis was a mere rumour and not a reality.
He urged the people of Eleme and Ogu/Bolo who had left the area in fear of attacks to return home as police, he said, had assured of total protection of live and properties adding that the meeting would be a continuous one.

L-R: Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State (left), congratulating the new Acting Chief Judge of the State, Justice Aliyu Liman, at the swearing-in in Bauchi, recently. Photo: NAN