Eteka1:
How does Lord Lugard come in here?
Ours is a society where no one bothers how you make money, peoples even celebrate kidnappers, drug barons, oil thieves etc. Is it then a surprise that such vices are on the rise? No. Must we always find someone to blame for our failure to imbibe positive values as a society?

you have said it all jare

NIGERIANS always looking for who to blame

.....

Niger gradually becoming a FAILED STATE.

Every state should have a state registration database.

Lagos should lead the way.

Once you have this, a traveller must register his presence at any ATM upon getting into a new state.

Every boat or canoe must be registered at the local government.

Employ more men in the military/police.

They must register their coordinates every night .

Watch how crime would reduce.

It was Fulani Herdsmen in the words of FFK and his cohorts afterall the Fulani guys have been the Sole criminals in this country since Buhari came to power in 2015

Some ppl may even try to link these attacks to Fulani herdsmen.

Eteka1:
How does Lord Lugard come in here?
Ours is a society where no one bothers how you make money, peoples even celebrate kidnappers, drug barons, oil thieves etc. Is it then a surprise that such vices are on the rise? No. Must we always find someone to blame for our failure to imbibe positive values as a society?

Lol. Last Thursday around 8am, I was going out and saw some guys drinking and smoking early in the morning, I was like this one cannot have a legitimate job, only crime can give you a fund that will make you start drinking early that morning on a week day.

they are at it again

Just they listen, some will they they are fulani herdsmen

Kingosytex:
Again?


Nigeria is gradually turning into somalia. How can there be serious unrests and tensions everywhere?


How can the citizens continue to live in perpetual fear of the unknown?

How can insecurity skyrocket to the heavens and the so-called leaders pretend as if all is well?


How can the so-called leaders surround themselves with adequate security personnels while the helpless masses resort themselves to fate?


Boko Haram, Fulani Herdsmen, Bandits, Gunmen, Kidnappers, Thieves (political and commercial) and cultists are running rampage everywhere.


Mr. Lugard, how did we offend you?

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BlackCrainte:
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BlackCrainte:
Fulani pirates have started again

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Nigeria's security system is a failed system

Wizklynd23:
The security there should be strengthen to nip in the bud further attacks

'Nip further attacks in the bud'

Hmmm..... so these attacks been going on for two months and those in charge did nothing. Now they are victims.... they are crying out like the residents instead of using their position to get assistance from the State or FG to put down the attacks. Taking no action would only encourage the attacks and get others to do the same. Incompetent leaders.

The country has fallen. Get out while you still can

vixpal:
Pirates dressed in military camouflage have taken over the waterways of Bille Kingdom in Degema Local Government Area, Rivers State, killing, maiming and robbing natives and travellers, including security operatives and politicians, on the waterways with impunity in the last two months.

Recently, they attacked eight speedboats travelling to/from the community, killing Mr. Abraham Anthony Alex and injuring Mr. Diepiriye Isaac and Mr. Ori-ipirite Ebi.

The sea bandits held travellers heading to Port Harcourt hostage for hours on Friday, May 31, carting away four speedboats.

NDV learned that the fully armed criminals again, Monday, June 3, attacked passengers, carting away their property and the boat conveying them to Port Harcourt, abandoning the victims in the mangroves.

In separate incidents, two of the passengers, Mr Andrew Kio, a Department of State Services, DSS, official and Opukon H. Imo, Councillor representing Ward 16 in Degema Legislative Council sustained gunshot inquiries and are receiving treatment in Port Harcourt.

Other victims of the attacks are the newly-elected chair of the Bille Kingdom Chiefs’ Council, Chief Bennett Okpopkiye-Dokubo, Mr. Fi-ibite A. Bille, Chairman, Bille Community in Port Harcourt, Mrs. Apaemi Amaye, President, Bille Women Forum and Dumo Warigbani, Chairman, Marine Workers Union of Nigeria, Bille Unit.

Within two months, the pirates struck over eight times, hijacked about seven speedboats and other valuables, sources revealed.

We’re under siege— Residents

Residents said they were under siege, following the recurrent attacks, and cried out for help.

Chair, Bille, Kingdom Chiefs Council, Alabo Bennett Okpokiye-Dokubo, told reporters in Port Harcourt that criminals have grounded economic activities in the area.

He said movements in and out of the community have halted, while businesspersons, civil servants and students, who travelled home over the weekend, could not return because of the development.

He said: “The Amanyanabo-in-Council, chiefs and the people of Bille Kingdom humbly draw your attention to the recurrent and indeed, renewed attacks on Bille passengers boats by unidentified gunmen dressed in military camouflage.

“The incident has culminated in the death of one passenger, Mr. Abraham Anthony Alex, left two others injured. We state that life has become unbearable within Bille Kingdom because of the unprovoked attacks. We are suffering in the hands of pirates.”

Gunmen on rampage

A dependable source, who simply gave his name as Kemuel, disclosed that an officer of Department of State Services, DSS, were among the victims.

Kemuel said: “Recently there have been heightened pirates’ attacks on passenger boats plying the Bille -Port Harcourt route. The new wave of attacks began June 1. On Saturday, they took a boat after dropping off the passengers on the sea.

“The climax was Monday morning, along New Calabar River where five fully-loaded Port Harcourt-bound speedboats on a convoy were attacked by heavily armed pirates in military camouflage.

“Two of the passengers, Mr Andrew Kio, a DSS official and Opukon H. Imo, Councillor representing Ward 16 in Degema Legislative Council sustained gunshot inquiries and are currently receiving treatment in Port Harcourt.

“Other notable victims of the attacks included the newly-elected Chairman of the Bille Kingdom Chiefs Council, Chief (Barr.) Bennett Okpopkiye-Dokubo, Mr. Fi-ibite A. Bille, Chairman, Bille Community in Port Harcourt, Mrs. Apaemi Amaye, President, Bille Women Forum and Dumo Warigbani, Chairman, Marine Workers Union of Nigeria, Bille Unit.”

Kemuel further disclosed: “On Friday, June 7, gunmen dressed in Nigerian Security Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, uniform, attacked a boat travelling to Port Harcourt from Bille Kingdom.

“Meanwhile, some people were stuck in the mangroves as a result of another pirates’ attack on two boats. The passengers of not less than 24 were in the mangrove for more than two hours before they were later rescued safely back home by a local team.”

Victims narrate ordeal

One of the victims, David Elisha, who ran into mangroves, narrated the incident happened around 5p.m. at the entrance to the big river.

His words: ”On June 7, the boat loaded in Bille and we left for Port Harcourt. Around New Calabar River, we saw a black boat. They chased us; we later identified six armed persons with Civil Defence uniform. They started shooting.

”The driver picked courage and ran to the mangrove; all of us ran out of the boat into the mangrove. They went away with the boat and all our belongings. Some of us, who had their phones on them started to make contacts to Port Harcourt and Bille.

”It took over one hour, 30 minutes for rescue team to come. It was around 7p.m. that a boat came and took us to a community called Namasibi. We were there for almost an hour before another boat and took us home.”

Another victim, Mr. Fi-ibite Bibi, who is the Chairman Bille Community in Port Harcourt, called on Governor Nyesom Wike to intervene and save people of the area from the repeated attacks.

According to her, “Bille people can no longer go to Port Harcourt; we are under siege. Today, as we were on the boat coming to Port Harcourt, men in military camouflage attacked us.

”We are calling on the Federal Government to look into our plight. They should save us. We call on the state governor, Chief Nyesom Wike to look into our condition. Journey from here to Port Harcourt is just 45 minutes, but we can no longer move.

”Our lives are in danger. We, the riverine people, are suffering.”

Council of Chiefs sends SOS to Gov Wike

Meanwhile, Bille Kingdom Chiefs’ Council had sent an SOS to the Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, Speaker of the State Assembly, Ikuinyi Ibani, Commissioner of Police in the state, Usman Belel, General Officer Commanding, Army Division in Port Harcourt and other security chiefs in the state, on the recurrent attacks on travellers in the area.

In response to the letter signed by Alabo Ibiba Konbonimi (Opu Kurowi II) Secretary General, Bille Kingdom Chiefs Council, urging government to save them from sufferings, the state Assembly constituted a committee to look into the issue.

The letter read in part: “The Bille Kingdom has been under repeated piracy attacks on the Bille water ways by gunmen dressed in military camouflage.

“The recent happenings have thrown the entire Bille Kingdom into a state of pandemonium. The people are in extreme fear, as access back and forth Port Harcourt for economic activities is under a state of life and death.

”The Amayanabo- in- Council, Chiefs and the entire Bille Kingdom, therefore, passionately call on to use your good offices to urgently come to our rescue before it becomes too late for us.

“Call on security agencies and operatives to come to our aid and ameliorate the pain and trauma of our people.”

LG chair shun calls from residents— Okpokiye-Dokubo

Bille Kingdom Chair, Okpokiye-Dokubo told NDV: “These recent attacks came after Army stopped escorting our boats. The House of Assembly Committee ordered the chair of our local government to provide security for us. Unfortunately he made only vain promises.

”After then, he has refused picking our calls. Bille is suffering in the hands of criminals. Life has become unbearable for us. We do not have any other route to travel. Criminals have taken over the one we follow before.

”If we do not provide petrol for the Army boat, they will not escort us and in the course of that, we incurred debt, which the chairman helped to pay. We did a letter to the chair on this issue again, but he has not done anything.”

At press time, the council boss did not respond to calls and text messages to his phone.

However, Rivers State Police Command, speaking through Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, said: “We got the report from OC Marine. On arrival of the Police to the scene, the hoodlums took flight.

“We have done security deployment to cover waterways.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/07/residents-cry-out-as-uniformed-sea-bandits-seize-rivers-kingdom/

No area is safe in Nigeria.
Our land no safe.
Our road no safe.
Air no safe.
And the governments are trying their best,but the challenged keep on increasing day by day.

For you guyz information am leaving earth to mars very soon.let me go and be living their alone.
Anyone that like to join me,spaceship ticket is $2 billion dollars only.no bargain plz.

Who are you people going to put the blame on now, Buhari or Wike

is like the people managing naija affairs are also criminals themselves.
because the level of crime rate have geometrically increased significantly!
the bandits are having a field day. this is chaos+anarchy

Nuclear Weapon

Eteka1:
How does Lord Lugard come in here?
Ours is a society where no one bothers how you make money, peoples even celebrate kidnappers, drug barons, oil thieves etc. Is it then a surprise that such vices are on the rise? No. Must we always find someone to blame for our failure to imbibe positive values as a society?

I second 100%

But, how did Buhari become the president of Nigeria... Tinubu is just a dissappointment.

This Rivers state is now a menace to the nation

Every week, one stupid and irritating news will happen

Even the marine spirits are tired of them

Since the nuisance at the top has decided to starve and make intelligent productive aged youths unemployed they have decided to use their heads ,when hunger sets in ,the human mind slip into survival mode, thereby turning into a predator

No border control no country. In the purest sense, border defines a nation.

vixpal:
Pirates dressed in military camouflage have taken over the waterways of Bille Kingdom in Degema Local Government Area, Rivers State, killing, maiming and robbing natives and travellers, including security operatives and politicians, on the waterways with impunity in the last two months.

Recently, they attacked eight speedboats travelling to/from the community, killing Mr. Abraham Anthony Alex and injuring Mr. Diepiriye Isaac and Mr. Ori-ipirite Ebi.

The sea bandits held travellers heading to Port Harcourt hostage for hours on Friday, May 31, carting away four speedboats.

NDV learned that the fully armed criminals again, Monday, June 3, attacked passengers, carting away their property and the boat conveying them to Port Harcourt, abandoning the victims in the mangroves.

In separate incidents, two of the passengers, Mr Andrew Kio, a Department of State Services, DSS, official and Opukon H. Imo, Councillor representing Ward 16 in Degema Legislative Council sustained gunshot inquiries and are receiving treatment in Port Harcourt.

Other victims of the attacks are the newly-elected chair of the Bille Kingdom Chiefs’ Council, Chief Bennett Okpopkiye-Dokubo, Mr. Fi-ibite A. Bille, Chairman, Bille Community in Port Harcourt, Mrs. Apaemi Amaye, President, Bille Women Forum and Dumo Warigbani, Chairman, Marine Workers Union of Nigeria, Bille Unit.

Within two months, the pirates struck over eight times, hijacked about seven speedboats and other valuables, sources revealed.

We’re under siege— Residents

Residents said they were under siege, following the recurrent attacks, and cried out for help.

Chair, Bille, Kingdom Chiefs Council, Alabo Bennett Okpokiye-Dokubo, told reporters in Port Harcourt that criminals have grounded economic activities in the area.

He said movements in and out of the community have halted, while businesspersons, civil servants and students, who travelled home over the weekend, could not return because of the development.

He said: “The Amanyanabo-in-Council, chiefs and the people of Bille Kingdom humbly draw your attention to the recurrent and indeed, renewed attacks on Bille passengers boats by unidentified gunmen dressed in military camouflage.

“The incident has culminated in the death of one passenger, Mr. Abraham Anthony Alex, left two others injured. We state that life has become unbearable within Bille Kingdom because of the unprovoked attacks. We are suffering in the hands of pirates.”

Gunmen on rampage

A dependable source, who simply gave his name as Kemuel, disclosed that an officer of Department of State Services, DSS, were among the victims.

Kemuel said: “Recently there have been heightened pirates’ attacks on passenger boats plying the Bille -Port Harcourt route. The new wave of attacks began June 1. On Saturday, they took a boat after dropping off the passengers on the sea.

“The climax was Monday morning, along New Calabar River where five fully-loaded Port Harcourt-bound speedboats on a convoy were attacked by heavily armed pirates in military camouflage.

“Two of the passengers, Mr Andrew Kio, a DSS official and Opukon H. Imo, Councillor representing Ward 16 in Degema Legislative Council sustained gunshot inquiries and are currently receiving treatment in Port Harcourt.

“Other notable victims of the attacks included the newly-elected Chairman of the Bille Kingdom Chiefs Council, Chief (Barr.) Bennett Okpopkiye-Dokubo, Mr. Fi-ibite A. Bille, Chairman, Bille Community in Port Harcourt, Mrs. Apaemi Amaye, President, Bille Women Forum and Dumo Warigbani, Chairman, Marine Workers Union of Nigeria, Bille Unit.”

Kemuel further disclosed: “On Friday, June 7, gunmen dressed in Nigerian Security Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, uniform, attacked a boat travelling to Port Harcourt from Bille Kingdom.

“Meanwhile, some people were stuck in the mangroves as a result of another pirates’ attack on two boats. The passengers of not less than 24 were in the mangrove for more than two hours before they were later rescued safely back home by a local team.”

Victims narrate ordeal

One of the victims, David Elisha, who ran into mangroves, narrated the incident happened around 5p.m. at the entrance to the big river.

His words: ”On June 7, the boat loaded in Bille and we left for Port Harcourt. Around New Calabar River, we saw a black boat. They chased us; we later identified six armed persons with Civil Defence uniform. They started shooting.

”The driver picked courage and ran to the mangrove; all of us ran out of the boat into the mangrove. They went away with the boat and all our belongings. Some of us, who had their phones on them started to make contacts to Port Harcourt and Bille.

”It took over one hour, 30 minutes for rescue team to come. It was around 7p.m. that a boat came and took us to a community called Namasibi. We were there for almost an hour before another boat and took us home.”

Another victim, Mr. Fi-ibite Bibi, who is the Chairman Bille Community in Port Harcourt, called on Governor Nyesom Wike to intervene and save people of the area from the repeated attacks.

According to her, “Bille people can no longer go to Port Harcourt; we are under siege. Today, as we were on the boat coming to Port Harcourt, men in military camouflage attacked us.

”We are calling on the Federal Government to look into our plight. They should save us. We call on the state governor, Chief Nyesom Wike to look into our condition. Journey from here to Port Harcourt is just 45 minutes, but we can no longer move.

”Our lives are in danger. We, the riverine people, are suffering.”

Council of Chiefs sends SOS to Gov Wike

Meanwhile, Bille Kingdom Chiefs’ Council had sent an SOS to the Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, Speaker of the State Assembly, Ikuinyi Ibani, Commissioner of Police in the state, Usman Belel, General Officer Commanding, Army Division in Port Harcourt and other security chiefs in the state, on the recurrent attacks on travellers in the area.

In response to the letter signed by Alabo Ibiba Konbonimi (Opu Kurowi II) Secretary General, Bille Kingdom Chiefs Council, urging government to save them from sufferings, the state Assembly constituted a committee to look into the issue.

The letter read in part: “The Bille Kingdom has been under repeated piracy attacks on the Bille water ways by gunmen dressed in military camouflage.

“The recent happenings have thrown the entire Bille Kingdom into a state of pandemonium. The people are in extreme fear, as access back and forth Port Harcourt for economic activities is under a state of life and death.

”The Amayanabo- in- Council, Chiefs and the entire Bille Kingdom, therefore, passionately call on to use your good offices to urgently come to our rescue before it becomes too late for us.

“Call on security agencies and operatives to come to our aid and ameliorate the pain and trauma of our people.”

LG chair shun calls from residents— Okpokiye-Dokubo

Bille Kingdom Chair, Okpokiye-Dokubo told NDV: “These recent attacks came after Army stopped escorting our boats. The House of Assembly Committee ordered the chair of our local government to provide security for us. Unfortunately he made only vain promises.

”After then, he has refused picking our calls. Bille is suffering in the hands of criminals. Life has become unbearable for us. We do not have any other route to travel. Criminals have taken over the one we follow before.

”If we do not provide petrol for the Army boat, they will not escort us and in the course of that, we incurred debt, which the chairman helped to pay. We did a letter to the chair on this issue again, but he has not done anything.”

At press time, the council boss did not respond to calls and text messages to his phone.

However, Rivers State Police Command, speaking through Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, said: “We got the report from OC Marine. On arrival of the Police to the scene, the hoodlums took flight.

“We have done security deployment to cover waterways.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/07/residents-cry-out-as-uniformed-sea-bandits-seize-rivers-kingdom/

where is the cow? Fulani herds men self.

It might jst be fulani fishmen terrorist i no trust those fulanis dem block dem for road operation dem port to water operation

again what is going on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8_qR2rCqjA&fbclid=IwAR0zPosvjlD037DGBPZPQyQLu_hWu0HItJq0zwDSIgzHZ9OV-eHCyx9Ni5E
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