SPECIAL Adviser to the Governor of Rivers State on Infrastructure, . Otonye Briggs, has said over 35 lives were lost to the Presidential election day killings involving the Nigerian Army and thugs in Abonnema, Akuku Toru Local Government Area of the state.
The Army, which lost a Lieutenant in the Abonnema election violence, declared killing six persons in the incidence. But Briggs in a statement alleged that the soldiers “with a known criminal collaborator killed more than 35 indigenes and strangers living in the community. “It is sad that the Amayanabo of Abonnema and the Council of Chiefs were compelled to summon All Progressives Congress, APC, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, politicians on March 7 to a peace pact against repeat of February 23 mayhem, and only PDP attended and signed the peace pact.“APC bluntly refused, maybe because they were planning more evil.”
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