Cracking down on brazen cult clashes in Rivers

IN a sustained alarming trend, Rivers State recently re-asserted that itself and cultism are like conjoined twins. Many residents that particular Monday sustained injuries in a rival cult clash in the Amadi-Ama community in the Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of the state. Two persons died in the gory clash fuelled by a supremacy battle between the Icelanders and Greenlanders confraternities. Their brazenness is shocking.

In May 2020, a four-man cult gang stormed Diobu, in the state capital and shot dead a man suspected to belong to a rival group after a brawl over “security fee” from traders. In June 2016, two police officers and five others were feared killed in Rumuji and Ovogo communities in the Emohua LGA during a battle between the Icelanders and Greenlanders.

The killing of notorious cultists in the state such as ‘Italian’, ‘Lucifer’, ‘Oil Minister’ and ‘Don Wanee’ worsened the danger rather than end it. Wanee’s gang was believed to have masterminded the awful 2018 New Year’s Day killing of about 15 persons returning from crossover church service in Omoku, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGA. Legislation such as the Rivers State Neighbourhood Safety Corps Law No. 8 of 2018 and the Rivers State Secret Cult and Similar Activities Law No.

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