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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has placed a ban on a planned meeting of some Igbo residents in the Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state.
According to a Statement from the Rivers State government, the proposed meeting was banned over fears that such meeting could spark fresh unrest in the area.
The meeting which was being planned by a group known as the United Igbo community was originally scheduled to hold at Oyigbo today, April 10, 2021.
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In a statement signed by Paulinus Nsirim, the State Commissioner for Information and Communications, justified the ban adding that the government has directed security agencies ‘to ensure that the said meeting does not hold to forestall a breakdown of law and order in the area’.
Though the government is not specific about any security concern, Oyigbo local government area which shares boundary with Abia state is considered a stronghold of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a proscribed group which the police claims is responsible for the attacks on police officers and its facilities in the area shortly after the #EndSARS protest in October 2020.
The attacks led to a military operation in which soldiers and civilians were killed.
Apart from Oyigbo’s fragile nature following the October incident, the meeting of the Igbo community is coming up at a time when the nation is grappling with attacks on police formations in Imo, which happens to be another southeastern state that shares a boundary with Rivers.
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