*The 18-year old girl was murdered by suspected ritualist, who allegedly cut off her breast
*Delta lawmakers seek police intervention in communal crisis.

The Bayelsa State government has urged the residents of Biogbolo to remain calm to allow the security agencies to unravel the murder of a girl. The 18-year old girl was murdered by suspected ritualist, who allegedly cut off her breast.

In a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Jonathan Obuebite, he urged the people not to read ethnic or tribal meaning to the killing.

The commissioner disclosed that the state police command had promised to fish out the perpetrators and prosecute them. He said government was committed to ensuring that the state is peaceful and promised to support the family of the deceased.

Obuebite urged youths in the area not to use the incident to disrupt the peace in the state, as everything was being done to guarantee their safety. He also explained that the girl’s breast was not removed, saying the police confirmed that they met her body intact.

The incident had on Tuesday resulted in violence, as the indigenes attacked Igbo traders shops in the area. They alleged that an Igbo man murdered the girl, whose name was given as Faith in a hotel, for ritual purpose.

The violence led to the closure of businesses around the busy Melford Okilo Road in Yenagoa, creating tension that a reprisal attack might follow. Yesterday, men of the security agents averted another clash as some youths alleged to be Igbo traders threatened people with arms and dangerous weapons.

Meanwhile, the Delta State House of Assembly has urged the police to intervene in the ongoing land dispute between Amai and Ezhiokpor communities in Ukwuani Local Council Area.

They urged Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to direct the state commissioner of police to deploy more policemen in the area to stem the mayhem.

DozieInc:
Both media and security agencies are blowing this out of proportion

DozieInc:
Both media and security agencies are blowing this out of proportion

realjoker:
how? Are you telling us that there is no tension between the locals and igbos traders after the death of the said teen?

realjoker:
how? Are you telling us that there is no tension between the locals and igbos traders after the death of the said teen?

DozieInc:

The situation is over blown

DozieInc:
Both media and security agencies are blowing this out of proportion

Dudeweedlmao:


The media can start a war because of view and traffic which = money

MXrep:
wetin concern igbo traders with a criminal that was caught?? let them continue nonsense tension and put their state in turmoil

IgboAmakaa:


no mind them


if is actually an igbo guy dat killed dat girl they should kill him too



who ever that kills must be killed too



that igbo guy must have leaved his entire life in south waeste where he learned that barbaric act

Amarabae:
Alleged Igbo guy? where is the evidence?
And why will a hotel lodge someone without documentation?
Let police handle the case jor.

realjoker:
so you mean the publisher of The Guardian will start a war involving his kinsmen(Niger delta) because of view and traffic just to make money?

Amarabae:
Alleged Igbo guy? where is the evidence?
And why will a hotel lodge someone without documentation?
Let police handle the case jor.

Amarabae:
Alleged Igbo guy? where is the evidence? And why will a hotel lodge someone without documentation? Let police handle the case jor.

Oblang:


Lol...u must blame afonja...

OAUTemitayo:
If they have mentioned Fulani cattle rearers will you have asked for evidence?

DozieInc:
Both media and security agencies are blowing this out of proportion

Amarabae:
Alleged Igbo guy? where is the evidence?
And why will a hotel lodge someone without documentation?
Let police handle the case jor.

fammava:
Am a bayelsan an also stay in bayelsa state not too far from biogbolo where the act was committed, the said girl was stabbed by an igbo man in a hotel when she woke up nd saw him trying to cut off her breast then screamed, the man who was a former tenant in her fathers house in other to silence her stabbed her to the point of death an hid himself when people broke the door of the hotel room. The girl was rushed to the hospital where she finally gave up, thereafter indigene told igbo traders to shut their stores for some days. The next morning, igbo traders opened their store which annoyed the indigenes and they started destroying things belonging to igbos..they got what they wanted I would say, if same had happened in an igbo state they would have done worse to an ijaw man