The Onye Ishi of
\nUlakwo Umuselem Clan in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State,\u00a0\u00a0 Eze Ken Nwala, has called on the state government to extend the demolition of cultists and criminals hideouts to the area.
\nThe Royal Father while commending the state Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike for the renewed fight against cultists in the state, particularly urged him to extend such gestures to Obibi community and its environs which according to him, have been ravaged by cult related attacks for more than four years.
\nThe Eze Nwala made the call in an exclusive interview with The Tide in his office in Port Harcourt, and said the move would afford the people of the eight villages in Obibi who have abandoned the place to return to their homes.
\nAccording to him, the call was necessitated because Etche Local Government Area was close to Port Harcourt and as such the cultists whose houses were demolished\u00a0 might decide to invade the polarised local government area for safety and hideout.
\n\u201cLet the governor ensure that he extends the war to other notorious local government areas where cultists hhold sway like Obibi and other communities across the state\u201d.
\nThe Etche monarch averred that the Governor Wike\u2019s determination to check cultism was an indication that he meant well for the state and urged him to do more so as to encourage more investors to invest in the state.
\nThe paramount ruler used the opportunity to call on the governor to empower the traditional rulers to enable them work effectively with\u00a0 security agencies to check the crime and added that the royal fathers were custodians of various communities and \u201cthey live with these boys\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Onye Ishi of Ulakwo Umuselem Clan in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State,\u00a0\u00a0 Eze Ken Nwala, has called on the state government to extend the demolition of cultists and criminals hideouts to the area. The Royal Father while commending the state Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike for the renewed fight against cultists in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}