… Amarieri Community
Development Chairman, CDC, says attack is first of its kind
…Rivers Assembly
summons Bonny LGA Chairman
Daniel Efe/Port Harcourt
The whereabouts of two persons are unknown after five masked gunmen at about 5 am today, Wednesday October 2, raided Amarieri community in Bonny Island in Bonny local government area of Rivers.
The attack today on Amarieri in Bonny Island is coming barely a week after sea Pirates attacked two passenger boats and hijacked the boats on Bonny waterways before kidnapping some prominent persons, among them a Councillor of Bonny Local Government.
Victims who
called into a Port Harcourt based radio station out of fright, narrated how
masked men forcefully break the doors of residents, beating them up and robbed
them of their valuables worth tens of thousands of Naira.
They said
the gunmen who did not fire any shots later kidnapped two men whisked them away
in waiting boats.
The Rivers State Police Command is yet to make comments on today’s attack on Bonny Island community at the time of filing this report.
Bonny Island community is the host of multi-million dollars Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas, NLNG.
Awajie Onyi,
the Chairman Community Development of Amarieri Community who confirmed the
robbery and kidnapping incident said that is the first of its kind in the
Community.
Mr. Onyi
while condemning the attack, appealed to security agencies to come to the aid
of the community, whose residents are mostly Fishermen.
“We
have not witnessed this kind of attack before. People are now very scared. We
appeal to the Rivers State Government to come to our aid”
Meanwhile, the Rivers State House of Assembly has summoned the Chairman of Bonny Local Government Council, Rogers David, to appear before it and explain the cause of the deteriorating security situation in local government area.
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At time of
filing this report the Rivers Police Command has not officially reacted to the
invasion of the community.
Bonny Island
is situated at the southern edge of
Rivers State
in the Niger Delta of Nigeria near Port Harcourt.
Ferries are
the main form of transport to and from the island. The local language spoken in
Bonny Island and Bonny Town is Ibani, an eastern Ijaw dialect.