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Extrajudicial killings: Bayelsa communities increase alarm over alleged siege by army

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The chiefs, ladies and youths of Igbomotoru communities in Southern Ijaw Native Authorities Space of Bayelsa State have raised the alarm over alleged killings, ongoing siege and dehumanization locally by armed army personnel and their cohorts believably appearing on the directives of the Nigerian Oil Firm Restricted.

The neighborhood additionally slammed a surveillance firm dealing with the safety of pipeline within the ongoing unabated disaster.

PRESSINFORMAT had earlier reported that the communities protested the razing of their houses, forcing indigenes to flee for security to neighboring communities within the space.

Talking throughout a press briefing in Yenagoa, over the weekend, the paramount ruler, HRH king Aseimiegha Ofongo known as on the Bayelsa State Authorities, the Federal Authorities and the worldwide neighborhood to urgently intervene and produce beneath management the continued siege and chronic dehumanization in Igbomotoru 1 and a pair of communities being perpetuated by armed army personnel and their cohorts.

The neighborhood lamented the sluggish response to their earlier letters written to the organs of presidency over the worsened acts of siege and dehumanization by the armed army males.

They mentioned, “Whereas we wouldn’t have any quarrels with army personnel offering safety in any a part of Nigeria, together with our Igbomotoru 1 and a pair of neighborhood, it isn’t in dispute that they’re anticipated to maintain to their customary code of conduct and preserve worldwide greatest practices.

“Totally different interpretations are being given to those actions which have the potential of igniting inter-communal crises, a state of affairs we don’t wish to happen.”