Ken Saro-Wiwa Poly Students Cry Out As Bandits Lay Siege On Bori …SUG Calls For Help, Plans Protests …Police Sue For Calm, Assure Adequate Security

As bandits lay siege on Bori, unleashing incessant attacks on residents mostly students of the Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, the Rivers State Police Command has assured students of the Polytechnic, and indeed, the people of the area of its commitment and determination to ensure protection of lives and property in the area.
Our correspondent reports that the police reaction was at the instance of an online report by the affected students, which has gone viral in the social media.
The Chief Judge of the Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic Students Union Government (SUG), Comrade Manson Dumlebabari, had, in an online report tagged, “Rescue Ken Poly Students”, alleged that students of the institution, residing within Bori metropolis, have been facing armed attacks on a daily basis, adding that banditry and cultism have taken control of the entire community without any reprieve from the local government authorities as well as the security agencies operating in the area.
He listed the areas affected to include, Miami lodge, MTN mast area, M-Republic, all of Macro Street, all of Agbani Street, all of Princey-Bara, and all of Bori community where they said the bandits had constantly attacked and injured students and robbed them of their belongings on daily basis without any form of interference by security forces.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, gave this assurance while speaking to The Tide yesterday on the alarm raised by the students on the increasing wave of criminality and banditry within the polytechnic community in Bori, the headquarters of khana LGA in the state, recently.
Omoni said that efforts have been intensified by the command to address the incessant harassment and banditry going on in the area, adding that relevant security agencies have been notified and put on red alert.
The police image maker, while sympathising with the affected students, urged them to bear with the police as the command has put in place machineries to neutralize every untoward situation and ensure that adequate tranquillity and peaceful environment are enthroned in the area.
“I just got the information, today, and have contacted all the relevant authorities within the affected areas. Let me assure the students, and indeed, the entire polytechnic community that we are committed to bringing the situation under control. Just bear with us a while, soon, there will be calm”, he stated.
The student union leadership further alleged that several efforts made by the SUG to meet with the local government chairman have not yielded any positive result as the Khana council boss has allegedly continued to avoid meeting with the students’ executive, adding that the students would have no other option than resort to a peaceful demonstration if nothing is done to assure their safety.
He averred that the continued silence on the issue by the council chairman, whose primary duty was to protect lives and property of residents of the LGA amounts to abdication of his responsibilities, and an affirmation of his readiness to destroy the institution.
Dumlebabari,, therefore, called on the state Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike as well as the state Commissioner of Police, Mustapha Dandaura, to come to their aid and save the students and staff of the institution from the hands of the hoodlums now terrorising the entire community.