Cult Violence: Police Confirm Killing Of Six Persons In Rivers

The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the killing of six persons in Odiokwu community in Ahoada West Local Government Area of the state.
The spokesperson of the State Police Command, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, while confirming the incident, yesterday in Port Harcourt, described the killing as cult-related reprisal attack.
She, however, said investigation into the mattter has begun, adding that the full report of police finding would be made public soon.
The state police image maker said that anti-riot policemen and other combatant operatives of the command had been deployed to restore peace and security in the affected community.
An eyewitness account has it that unknown gunmen invaded Odiokwu Community in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State last Sunday and killed, at least, six persons.
The hoodlums were said to have stormed the community in motorbikes at about 11:00am that fateful day, and gunned down five persons at different points, including a famous native doctor, Ojukwu Ozor, in the area.
Reasons for the heinous action was sketchy as at the time of filling this report, but an witness account said it was a reprisal attack linked to the killing of a dreaded cultist in Odiokwu community, recently.
Community source said the gun-wielding invaders attacked, and opened fire on unsuspecting youths and any person who attempted to run away on sighting them.
The community source added that many residents who fled the community during the Sunday operation were yet to return home.
Meanwhile, those gunned down in the attack included John Ikata, Godbless Sunday, Chidom Elems, Martin Augustine, Ozorchi Umeh and Dr. Ojukwu Ozor from Delta State but resided at Odiokwu community for over 15 years with his family.
A famous cultist, who was a native of Odiokwu community, late Chidom Iyeumame, popularly known in the area as ‘Odey’, was strangled to death early last month, and the body was thrown along Odiokwu-Ula Ehuda road.
Odey was said to have been the leader of a cult group terrorising Odiokwu and the surrounding communities.