Policemen and women serving in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State have cried out to Governor Nyesom Wike to come to their rescue before marauding hoodlums who have overrun their stations and barracks return for a second onslaught.

One of the officers, who spoke on condition of anonymity to Kristina Reports, pleaded with the Governor and Local Government Chairman to come to their rescue as some of their colleagues have already lost their lives.

“As it stands, we need the government to send vehicles to come and take us, especially, the women and children out of Oyigbo.”

She raised the alarm that the criminal elements who attacked the police stations across the LGA were angling for a second attack on police facilities in the area.

“There are also stories going around that the boys are coming tonight to set the barracks ablaze.”

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The police officer regretted that the officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force in the area have been left to their fate since the attacks started, stressing that while some of their colleagues lost their lives, others lost valuables and many are currently homeless.  

“Nobody is showing concern not the authority nor has the Local Government Chairman come to check the extent of damage or our fate.”

“We are not okay, we have been hanging around people’s houses because our properties were made away with.”

Oyigbo LGA has been on the boil in the past three days as hoodlums suspected to be members of the proscribed Independent Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and others of Northern extraction have been on rampage attacking public facilities and injuring people in the area.

According to a statement by the Public Relation Officer of the Rivers State Police Command, SP Nnamdi Omoni, “Three Police Stations in Rivers State came under attack yesterday 21/10/2020 at about 2130hrs when hoodlums numbering about 500 suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) invaded the Oyigbo Area Command, Oyigbo and Afam Police Stations, setting them ablaze and damaging about fifteen vehicles including one Armored Personnel Carrier (APC).

“In the wake of the attack, two Police Officers were killed and some arms and ammunition carted away by the hoodlums.”

“In another attack at the Mile one Police Station, the same rampaging IPOB members who operated under the guise of #ENDSARS Protests made frantic attempt at burning the Mile One Police Station and the office of Eagle Crack Squad but were however repelled by the superior fire power of the Police, as three of them were fatally wounded in the exchange of gunfire, while eight (8) of them were arrested and immediately transferred to State CID where they are currently helping in our investigation.”