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RSG Warns Against Attempt To Tamper With Odiari’s Grave

The Rivers State government on Saturday warned that full weight of the law will be visited on anyone who wants to desecrate the grave of the late Chairman of Asari-Toru Local Government Area, Chief Odiari Princewill.

Chief Princewill who died last Thursday was buried at Port-Harcourt Cemetery.

In a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information, Pastor Paulinus Nsirim, the government warned that unauthorized persons found near the cemetery would be arrested and prosecuted.

The statement said: “Government hereby warns families, friends and relations who may want to desecrate the grave of the deceased that the full weight of the law will be visited on them. Security agencies have therefore been placed on red alert to ensure that only authorized persons come near the cemetery”.

The statement said the rumour that the body of the late chairman had been exhumed from Port-Harcourt cemetery was “baseless and untrue”.

The statement said: “The grave where the deceased was interred is still intact as no one has tampered with it”.

The State Police Command also dismissed rumour that the body of the late chairman was exhumed and taken to an unknown location.

In statement released by the police, police imagemaker, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, said: “The attention of the Rivers State Police Command has been drawn to the news making the rounds that the body of the late Chairman of Asari-Toru LGA had been exhumed and taken to an unknown place.

“Ordinarily, the Command would have dismissed the report with a wave of the hand. But in order not to allow the public be misled with this seemingly ridiculous and absurd story, we have deemed it necessary to put the records straight…The said report is fake and unverifiable”.

He said he had led a team of journalists to the cemetery and discovered that the grave was intact and untampered.

The statement said the Commissioner of Police, CP Joseph Mukan, appealed to the public to remain calm as the imagemaker said the police boss was prepared to give quality policing in the state no matter whose ox is gored.

In another development, Head of Service in Rivers State, Rufus Godwins, said it was not true that Block C of the State Secretariat was shut down.

In a statement released by the Head of Service, the HOS said: “The trending online report that Block C of the Rivers State Secretariat has been shut down by government owing to the death of the late Diretor of Treasury, and the finding that five civil servants have tested positive to Covid-19 pandemic, with a directive that other staff and members of the public who had contact with the Ministry of Finance should self-isolate is utterly false, and the concoction of peddlers of fake news”.

The Head of Service said there was no evidence of civil servant who tested positive to coronavirus nor was there directive for self-isolation.

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