Death toll in the New Year massacre in Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local Government area of Rivers State has risen to twenty one.

Reacting, the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA Dakuku Peterside sympathized with the families of the deceased.


He said it was another set of death too many in a local government area that was held hostage by cult groups claiming supremacy and allegedly enjoying support from some politicians.

The NIMASA boss stated that the latest killings had once again exposed the lack of capacity and competence on the part of Governor Nyesom Wike to provide adequate security for Rivers people.

He regretted that while other parts of the state were in celebratory mood, the people of ONELGA were mourning the passing away of their beloved in the most gruesome manner.

“My heart goes the people of ONELGA and the immediate families of the deceased. This is an act that must be condemned. The good people of Omoku have suffered enough and this has dealt a further blow on their sufferings.


“I have said it time and again that Governor Wike lacks the capacity and competence to guarantee the safety and security of Rivers people. It is unfortunate that over 1,000 persons have been killed in questionable circumstances in the last two years under his watch. He should stop playing politics with the lives of Rivers people and face governance.

“Since the governor is not rising to the occasion to show competence, we will henceforth partner with all relevant security agencies to bring peace, law and order to ONELGA and other parts of Rivers State.

“This is indeed a sad day for the people of ONELGA and the only way we can assuage their feelings is to ensure that this does not happen again. Governor Wike can rise above his partisan politics and display the hallmark of a statesman by openly condemning this murderous act and stop at nothing to arrest the criminals,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Rivers State Police Command said it was yet to ascertain the number of casualties, Spokesman of the Command, Nnamdi Omoni said the police were on top of the situation.


However, the authorities of ONELGA has confirmed the figures with the Council Chairman, Osi Olisah informing DAILY POST that ex Niger-Delta agitator, Johnson Igwedibia popularly called DonWanny led the attack.

Olisah also disclosed that a member of the Local vigilante and the son of the Paramount Ruler of Ego land were also killed in the attack.

Source: http://www.dailypost.ng/2018/01/01/rivers-new-year-massacre-peterside-blasts-wike-death-toll-rises/

ELECTION IS FAST APPROACHING,SO THEY MUST DO EVERYTHING WITHIN THEIR POWER TO REMOVE NYSOM WIKE BY ALL MEANS...

FRESHG:
ELECTION IS FAST APPROACHING,SO THEY MUST DO EVERYTHING WITHIN THEIR POWER TO REMOVE NYSOM WIKE BY ALL MEANS...

you are making sense though

May their innocent souls rest in perfect peace , Amen.

I mean Nigerians are just plain wicked. I mean the way,the mode and the way they carried out their massacre shows that these ones have used their hearts to play baba ijebu two sure

Politicians use these evil men for various purposes. They arm them, fund them, release them from detention, with the hope that they can unleash them when necessary. Unfortunately, these men can not always be restrained. They have their own vendetta and sundry evil issues to take care of. Has any election been won without these cultists playing a role in disenfranchising the people or subjugating the will of the people? I guess not. It is so unfortunate that the brazen actions of these boys stem from the protection they get politicians

FRESHG:
ELECTION IS FAST APPROACHING,SO THEY MUST DO EVERYTHING WITHIN THEIR POWER TO REMOVE NYSOM WIKE BY ALL MEANS...

Not entirely wrong.

Anything Rivers I no dey put mouth because Wike and Amaechi are playing ping-pong with the lives of their citizens.
God keeping us alive,we will see them hold hands one day,professing how they are brothers and blood is thicker than water,after wasting lives upon lives.

Rip to the dead.

Every human being should know that you don't have the right to take a life you can't create.
RIP to all those caught up in this massacre, I pray God consoles their loved ones.

And All those who conspired to take these lives should know that they cannot have peace of mind, they took away the bodies but their souls can never die, He that killeth by the sword shall die by the sword.
Too much wickedness.
I hope some will not again politicize this as Human Life is above Any other thing on Earth.

Am I the only one that observed that FFK, Fayose and PDP have not commented on the New Year killings in Rivers State? & they are yet to shout Islamisation and Northernisation drive?

In Nigeria, death and miseries are ladders to political ambition.

Wise up Nigerians

nonjebose:
Politicians use these evil men for various purposes. They arm them, fund them, release them from detention, with the hope that they can unleash them when necessary. Unfortunately, these men can not always be restrained. They have their own vendetta and sundry evil issues to take care of. Has any election been won without these cultists playing a role in disenfranchising the people or subjugating the will of the people? I guess not. It is so unfortunate that the brazen actions of these boys stem from the protection they get politicians

Very true. And our e-warriors come online to defend their fathers father

Esseite:
Hunger breeds violence...

Less than 5years ago, we were the happiest people in the world

Some people won't agree with you bro

Fate of an average Nigerian! Watch as the citizens die selectively due to failure of the govern!ent at every level. To the youths who keep shouting the names of politicians on this forum, keep shouting as if they pay your salary... WHAT A NATION!

May their gentle souls rest in peace.

Stoopid Peterside has forgotten that the police,army and other security agencies are not under d control of the governor but under d control of d federal government which he is a part of.
Wike doesn't have d power to instruct an ordinary DPO on what to do.

Since Wike took office, cultists in Rivers state have become emboldened just like herdsmen have been emboldened since the second coming of buhari. That should tell us something.

Sporadic killings in South South and South East you guys will say hunger breeds violence and insult APC and Buhari. Killings in the North, you guys won't call it hunger, instead it's things like they are fanatics. Guys, let's be rational and eschew tribalism and religious sentiments and call a spade a spade. No one deserves to die in such a horrible manner. just like u guys blame Buhari for killings in the country, give blames as well to the Governor of the state. These are cultists and u guys need not be told these politicians are part of them. God save us.

Don't be surprised that Peterside is behind the killings.
Lord Chosen should pray for vengeance.
" Vengeance is mine says the Lord." God

Don't be surprised that Peterside is behind the killings.

Lord Chosen should pray for vengeance.

" Vengeance is mine says the Lord." God

Ogba people should not relent in prayers

dokiOloye:
Stoopid Peterside has forgotten that the police,army and other security agencies are not under d control of the governor.
Wike doesn't have d power to instruct an ordinary DPO on what to do.

continue playing politics with human lifes, dont condemn evil.... it was their turn yesterday and it might be your turn tomorrow.

This is why we must all come together to condemn this evil and call for justice, because those dead kids and women are neither PDP nor APC. We dont need this in Nigeria!

My heart goes out to thier families...at this time of the year.

FRESHG:
ELECTION IS FAST APPROACHING,SO THEY MUST DO EVERYTHING WITHIN THEIR POWER TO REMOVE NYSOM WIKE BY ALL MEANS...

Are you sure you are making sense. This is life issue. Be careful it may be yours next...

EternalTruths:
Don't be surprised that Peterside is behind the killings.

Lord Chosen should pray for vengeance.

" Vengeance is mine says the Lord." God

Ogba people should not relent in prayers

You were there in the parlor with him sipping wine and munching new year chicken wings when he ordered the hit I presume?

funlord:


You were there in the parlor with him sipping wine and munching new year chicken wings when he ordered the hit I presume?

Small boy, you don't know politicians.

Let it rise Mehn...

Bubu can appoint them into different parameters as usual

FRESHG:
ELECTION IS FAST APPROACHING,SO THEY MUST DO EVERYTHING WITHIN THEIR POWER TO REMOVE NYSOM WIKE BY ALL MEANS...

Shut up cult boy. Is Don Wani not Wike's staff? This is purely ritual killing.

Nigeria has failed. The blame will be passed and everyone will move on

hmmm

APC is doing this to frustrate wike's government just like it did during Jonathan's government. All these attacks in Rivers, Adamawa and Borno, Benue, Plateau, etc against Christians through fulani herdsmen parading themselves as gunmen are politically motivated.