Police Disown Viral Video Protest In Rivers

The Rivers State Police Command says the viral video showing protesters in solidarity march for the rearrested IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu purportedly held in Port Harcourt, last Wednesday, was untrue and fabrication of lies.
The command also said categorically that such protest march did not hold in any part of the state.
A statement signed by the command’s spokesperson, SP Nnamdi Omoni in Port Harcourt, yesterday, described the online viral video of the purported protest march as handiwork of enemies of the state, adding that the state has enjoyed relative peace and tranquillity since the assumption of office of Friday Eboka as the commissioner of police.
According to him, the Rivers State Police under the watch of CP Eboka Friday, since assumption of duty, has stabilized the command by entrenching proactive approaches in crime fighting strategies, where the impact of the police is being felt by all, adding that the CP has remained irrevocably committed to delivering quality policing services to the state.
“The attention of the Rivers State Police Command has been drawn to a viral video on Social Media about a protest march purportedly held yesterday (30/6/2021) in Port Harcourt, in solidarity for the re-arrested leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, and would like to state as follows, ‘The said viral video is false and not a true reflection of the state of affairs in Port Harcourt, yesterday.
‘That the said viral video is the handiwork of the fifth columnists, bent on heating up the polity and painting Rivers State in bad light.
‘That the Rivers State Police under the watch of CP Eboka Friday, since assumption of duty, has stabilized the command by entrenching proactive approaches in his crime fighting strategies, where the impact of the police is being felt by all and he remains irrevocably committed to delivering quality policing services to the state.’
“The command wishes to state in an unmistakable term, that Rivers State in recent time, has enjoyed uninterrupted peace and tranquillity which must be sustained.
“That the viral video of yesterday is misleading and intended to upset the peace and create unnecessary fear and panic in the minds of the public, hence should be disregarded and discountenanced.
“The present administration of the police in the command is poised to securing the state and providing an atmosphere of peace for all to realize their full potentials,” the statement added.

By: Akujobi Amadi