There were heavy shootings yesterday at the Elekahia Housing
Estate, near the Liberation Stadium between some ex-militants and a joint
security team made up of soldiers and the operatives of the Special Anti
Robbery Squad (SARS).
Eyewitnesses said that the ex-militants,
who had been converging at the nearby stadium were fomenting trouble, hence the
invitation of the soldiers and SARS, whose presence stopped the ex-militants
from unleashing mayhem in the area.
But before the arrival of the security
operatives, residents of the estate had ran into their flats, just as motorists
and commuters around the stadium road axis ran helter skelter in a bid to
escape being hit by bullets.
An eyewitness, who lives in the estate, and
was coming from nearby Rumukalagbon, said it was “unclear to state what really
happened and what caused the shooting, but there was confusion because a lot of
people were running up and down”.
The spokesman of the state police command,
Ahmad Mohammad, (DSP), who confirmed the incident, said that nine of the
ex-militants had been arrested, just as he said that no security operative was
shot in the incident.
Meanwhile, Governor Nyesom Wike, has
restated his pledge to flush out cultists in the state, stressing his readiness
to take the fight to them wherever they are.
The governor, who spoke when former Senate
President, Sen. David Mark, commissioned the eightkilometre
Ozuoba-Ogbogoro-Rumuolumeni road in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, noted
that security agencies have been given the free hand to deal decisively with
cultists.
He said: “Since they have said that I will
not sleep, they will not sleep. Anyone who is arrested, will be dealt with in
line with the tenets of the law.”
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