Police Deploy Men To Stop Killing In Oloko, Oyigbo

The Rivers State Police Command says it has dispatched a team of policemen to stop the crisis rocking the people of Oloko community in Tai and Oyigbo local Government Areas of the state
The state Commissioner of Police, CP Eboka Friday, disclosed this to journalists on Monday and noted that he had ordered the deployment of policemen to Afam and Oloko communities in Oyigbo and Afam in order to forestall reprisal attacks.
Stakeholders and some victims of violence resulted in the death of one person, Pastor Abraham Yorka and others sustained injuries in the area.
To this effect, the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Koroma Tai in Tai LGA on Monday met with the various persons who sustained injury during the crisis to chart a way forward for the return of peace in the community
A member of Oloko community and one of the victims of the violence, Monday Piit, alleged that OSPAC members from a neigbouring community in Oyigbo LGA attacked their community and added that trouble started after men from their community went to eat after working on a community farmland in Oloko community ,Tai LGA at a boundary with Afam in Oyigbo LGA on that fateful day
According to him, suddenly they heard women and children in the farmland shouting, crying and the next thing they heard was gunshots which made everybody scamper to safety.
These OSPAC gunmen started burning houses, shooting at people and also burnt his motorcycle.
He said he discovered it was OSPAC from a neigbouring community in Oyigbo LGA.”
“Some of the natives of Oloko community are still missing,” he stated.
Also speaking, one Sunday Vasighe, who sustained gunshot injuries on the leg and hand alleged that the gunmen who shot him were OSPAC members from neigbouring Community in Oyigbo LGA to Oloko community and called on the Rivers State Government and the Police to bring the perpetrators to book even as the incident has been reported to Koroma-Tai Police Division in Tai Local Government Area.

By: Akujobi Amadi