Farmers Decry Cult Activities In Rivers Community

Following the sacking
of Aminigboko community, in the Emughan clan of Abua/Odual local government area of Rivers State by yet-to-be-identified gunmen early March, farmers from the community have called on the state government to come to their rescue.
The chairman Aminigboko Community Development Committee (CDC), Elder Chukwudi Georgewill who spoke to The Tide on behalf of the farmers recently said the community has since been deserted following the ugly incident.
According to him, the few existing farms have been constantly ravaged by the suspected gunmen who are alleged to have vowed to eliminate any male citizen of the community that dares to enter to carry out any farming activity.
Also speaking, the paramount ruler of Emughan Clan , Thankyou Obagan IV  while narrating the ordeal of the farmers disclosed that indigenes of the community who ventured to enter and harvest their crops were attacked and their vehicles seized by the hoodlums who have occupied every farm and bush tracks leading to the community.
Lamenting further, he said all his cassava, plantain and fish farms have been looted by the hoodlums.
The Tide further gathered that the presence of armed personnels in the community was not helping matters as they do not patrol the farms.
Further investigations by The Tide indicate that a good number of motor cycles belonging to indigenes of the community have been snatched by the hoodlums, especially those that made attempts to access their farms.
It would be recalled that the gunmen attacked the community on March 12,2016, killing a good number of people including children even as they looted and burnt houses on the fateful day.