Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, allegedly shot dead one person while many suffered during a funeral procession in Rumuosi, Obio-Akpor local government area of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State on Monday.

It was gathered that the procession was for the burial of one Aleruchi Woko, who was allegedly killed by a military personnel during a protest over the deplorable state of Nkpolu Junction on the East-West road in Nkpolu, last November.

According to an eyewitness, the incident happened at about 9.30 am when some youths who had gone to carry the corpse of late Aleruchi Woko at a mortuary in Rumuosi, began robbing shop owners and residents with machetes.

The incident resulted into panic as residents and shop owners quickly locked up their homes and shops and scampered for safety.

“Some Policemen who witnessed the suspected hoodlums wearing black T-shirts and black trousers and clutching sharp machetes while robbing traders of their wares began shooting at them. Gun shots were heard in and around Nkpolu community. Some of Tricycle riders drove recklessly as part of the burial procession,” the eyewitnes said.

When contacted over the incident, the Community Development Committee Chairman of Nkpolu Community, Achinike Orubuogwu, said:

“The young man killed by the Police and the other one nursing bullet wounds are not indigenes of the community, but sympathizers who came to join us when went to the mortuary to carry the corpse of our brother.”

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NPF should please do something about this officers asap..

Rivers State has become a lawless state.

This lawlessness is as a result of failed family values and the rampant use of illicit drugs by youths, cultism and unemployment.

There are so many single parents, and abandoned children who are left to fend for themselves thereby exposing them to early adulthood forcing them to engage in alcoholic consumption, prostitution, drug abuse, cultism and other social vices.

There is high level of school drop out in Rivers state and the Niger delta at large, forcing youths to engage in criminal activities to stay afloat.

The family,religious bodies and government should rise up to their responsibility to arrest this situation before this cancer spread beyond redemption.