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Bayelsa Govt Orders Security Agencies Take Over of Nembe Unity Bridge
From Mike Tayese, Yenagoa
The Bayelsa State Government has directed security agencies to beef up security in and around the Unity Bridge linking Opu-Nembe and Nembe City communities to forestall further cases of cross-community breach of peace.
It also warned youths of Ogbolomabiri and Bassambiri communities in Nembe Local Government Area of the state to refrain from acts capable of plunging the two sister communities into a major conflict.
The Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, who gave the directive at a meeting with the joint chiefs’ councils of the two Kingdoms in Government House, Yenagoa, said government was set to deal decisively with anyone found fomenting trouble in the area.
He pointed out that the State Government constructed the Nembe Unity bridge to foster peaceful coexistence, noting that government would not allow any person or group of persons to jeopardize the noble objective through acts of criminality and brigandage.
Senator Ewhrudjakpo, assured that Government would take every necessary step to stem the recurrent cases of unprovoked attacks straddling the communities.
Stressing the need for both communities to liaise and work closely with the security agencies on the ground there, he particularly called on the Chiefs from Bassambiri to restrain their youths from further encroachment into the neighbouring community.
The Deputy Governor, who used the opportunity to commend the leadership of both kingdoms for cooperating with security agencies to ensure peace during the February and March Elections, urged people of the area to maintain the kind and civilized gesture at all times.
In their separate remarks, the Chairman of the Nembe Chiefs’ Council, Chief Erewari-Igbeta, and the Secretary of the Opu-Nembe Chiefs’ Council, Chief Robert Johnbull Efere, thanked government for taking proactive steps to end pockets of attacks in the area.
The two chiefs who condemned the recent attacks in very strong terms, however, appealed to government and the security agencies to ensure that criminal elements using the Nembe Unity bridge as access point to carry out their attacks were checkmated.
The President of Nembe City Youth Congress, Mr Nelson Ebimie Kuroghafa and his Opu-Nembe counterpart, Mr Moses Ayerite, who was represented by the Vice Chairman, Mr Nimibofa Collins Degi, made significant submissions at the meeting.
Gov. Umaru Bago of Niger, on Thursday inspected the site of a police station demolished by the state government in Chanchaga, Minna.
The governor had on May 29, during his inaugural speech, announced that the police station was built on major water pipeline disrupting supply of water in Minna metropolis.
Bago, who was represented by his deputy, Mr Yakubu Garba, said the structure was disrupting adequate water supply to residents, adding that there was the need to demolish the structure to pave way for free water supply.
He noted that demolishing the police station was part of government’s efforts to ensure that metropolitan towns enjoy supply of potable water.
(NAN)
Chairman of Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi, Mr Chinonso Ajah has imposed a dusk- to-dawn curfew on three communities in the council area.
Ajah stated in Abakaliki on Thursday that the decision followed recurring restiveness in the communities.
He listed the communities as Ọkpọsị, Ugwulangwu and Uburu, the hometown of immediate past Gov.
David Umahi.The curfew which is intended to check the restiveness, takes effect from 6 p.
m. on Thursday till further notice, he added.“All forms of movements including activities of motorcyclists and commercial tricycle operators within the areas have been outlawed.
“The people are advised to adhere to this directive to avoid further threat to peace in the council area,’’ Ajah stressed.
He advised traditional and religious leaders as well as town union executives to sensitise their subjects on the need to comply with the curfew.
“This is because, violators will be dealt with severely,’’ the council chairman stated. (NAN) (www.nannews.ng)
There was panic at the Anambra State House of Assembly as four armed men, suspected to be operatives of the Directorate of Security Services (DSS), tried to whisk away member-elect for Nnewi North constituency, Mr Onyekachukwu Ike.
The armed men drove into the Assembly complex in three vehicles and grabbed the member-elect after he participated in a valedictory thanksgiving mass for the seventh Assembly.
They forced the member-elect into their vehicle and were trying to drive out of the Assembly complex when security personnel quickly locked the exit gate.
The Acting Clerk of the Assembly, Mrs Esther Aneto, and other senior staff lamented that the suspected DSS operatives did not inform them or even the Police personnel at the Assembly before trying to whisk Ike away.
One of the suspected DSS operatives, however, explained that they had a court order to arrest the member-elect.
It took the intervention of the Speaker, Dr Uche Okafor, and the Deputy Governor, Dr Onyeka Ibezim, who came to represent the Governor at the Valedictory session of the seventh Assembly, before the member-elect was released. (NAN)
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