Unknown gunmen, on Friday, hijacked a corpse at Ahoada in Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State and demanded a ransom of N1m before releasing it.

Eye witness account had it that the corpse, which was being conveyed home for burial by church members, was hijacked along Ahoada road by bandits, after ordering the driver of the ambulance conveying the corpse to stop.

The witness said the bandits pulled the corpse from the ambulance and fled with it inside the bush while the driver of the ambulance was asked to go. He said that the news of the tragic drama got to the children of the late woman, which made one of them to visit the scene, saying that the deceased’s son never returned home alive.

He said that soon after the son of the deceased got to the scene to demand the release of his mother’s corpse, the armed men shot him dead and dragged his lifeless body into the bush.

He said that someone from the community intervened before the corpse was released to the church.

“The family had hired an ambulance with which it was conveying the remains of the woman home for burial. On the way, this group of armed men, decked in flowing white robe but armed with AK-47 rifles, waylaid the ambulance, took the casket hostage, demanding for N1,000,000 from the bereaved’s family for its release.

“They ordered the ambulance driver to “vanish” with his vehicle, and the man gladly fled the scene,” the witness said.

He said that soon after the corpse was released and sermon for the burial commenced at the community church, the congregation were informed of impending cultists’ attack which made the entire congregation to fled and abandoned the corpse.

When contacted, Rivers State Police Command’s Public Relation Officer, Nnamdi Omoni said he was not aware of the incident. He said he would contact the DPO of Ahoada Police Division to get information about the incident.

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Callous this is........How did we get to this level of wickedness

Double wahala for dead body.

The level of criminality in Rivers State is alarming. You dare not challenge youths for wrongdoing because almost all of them belong to one group of criminal gang (Cult) or another.

The free flow of small arms fire in the Niger Delta brought in by Russians and Chinese illegal oil bunkers have turned Rivers state to Rivers of blood as no single day passes without one heinous crime being committed.

The government in the state have tried many times to mop up these arms by granting amnesty and giving incentive to these groups of boys and girls, yet no solution in sight.

This is an indication of a failed family values and upbringing. So many youths in Rivers state are born out of wedlock and have little or no home training.

wounder shall never end

I swear, I weak....

I refuse to believe this story

No need for any ransom. Let them eat the corpse

What kind of rubbish story is this?
Corpse was seized,son went to collect it only to be shot dead,then corpse appeared in church again, cultists came and people scampered.
Some bloggers have turned blogging to look like a field for drop outs.

Rivers state don buy market so where is the chief security of the state mr project.they want to recover the money they wasted during the election by all means.

BuhariAdvocate:
Rivers state don buy market so where is the chief security of the state mr project.they want to recover the money they wasted during the election by all means.

Buhari control all security apparatus in the country and he has failed

Seem your brain is under your foot. He stop commissioner of police or River state army commander?

MXrep:

Buhari control all security apparatus in the country and he has failed

BuhariAdvocate:
Seem your brain is under your foot. He stop commissioner of police or River state army commander?

Does rivers police commisioner or army commander report to Wike? Dumb Buharist. Why was GEJ blamed for boko haram by opposition then instead of the governor?

"1 million" for "dead body" Syphilis dey worry these ones 4 brain.......

Let the dead bury their dead.

Hmmm... Where are we heading to in this country?

People dey kidnap corpse for ransom.

Bunch of unfortunate cretins.

MXxrep:
Below were the people killed by fulani herdsmen in Enugu state till date your useless gov has not done anything.

Pictures: condition of schools in the cursed Enugu state

In as much as Buhari is incompetent, I'd say you're dumb for accusing Buhari of the insecurity of Rivers State. The Governor is CSO of the state.

Rivers is burning and their elders are folding hands and watching without helping out.

This corpse hijack will soon start trending

So the dead cannot rest in peace again eh

Let them kukuma obtain their 1million from the corpse.
Mtchww

Even the dead has no rest

Finally it has gotten to this point

Nigeria is finished

Naija don become a deadly zone

Ahan Rivers everywhere. Why all these bad news from there na

security in Nigeria is at it's lowest ebb under this administration