…As Police Swing Into Action To Restore Normalcy
Kono Boue Community and its neighbouring communities in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State are reportedly living in fear due to activities of a notorious gang, forcing the residents to flee the area.
The gang was alleged to have abducted a young man from Kono Boue Community, one Mr. Demde Siakpo recently and is yet to release him, thereby heightening tension and apprehension in the area.
This is even as several other persons are suspected to have been matcheted and injured. One of the victims, Mr. AkpoBari Duube, who was allegedly matcheted by the gang is said to be lying cortically ill in an undisclosed hospital.
It was gathered that several indigenes of Kono Boue Community had fled the community and sought refuge in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camps in Bori, headquarters of Khana Local Government Area, but sources indicate that they have started returning home owing to a peace accord brokered by the police in the area.
It was further alleged that on Friday, September 13, 2019, seven women and two girls were abducted at gunpoint at the Wiideekwiri farm area in Kono Boue Community and were taken to Kereke Boue Community by the gang, but with the timely intervention of the Divisional Police Officer and his men the captives were rescued. The missing man, Mr. Demde Siakpo was said to have been abducted at the Wiikoro farm area, where he had gone to work in his farm.
Confirming the ugly development, the police authorities in the area said their men had arrested two persons in Gbam Community in connection with the incidents, adding that the police were currently on the trail of the leader of the gang.
They also confirmed the abduction of Mr. Demde Siakpo, whom he said has remained missing since last week Tuesday.
The police source also disclosed that the security operatives also burnt down a shrine in one of the communities where the criminals were using as a hideout to perpetrate mayhem against the people, stressing that they were working round the clock to bring the situation under control to ensure that the peace accord signed by the five communities in Boue Clan in the wake of the crisis was not truncated.
Meanwhile, there are indications that those who fled Kono Boue community have started returning to the community.
