…Want Federal Government, Bayelsa, international community to intervene
The people of Igbomotoru 1 and 2 communities in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have called on the Federal Government, Bayelsa State Government and the international community to aid to halt the siege and dehumanision on their communities by armed military personnel.
The people through their acting Paramount Ruler, Chief Good luck Simon Alogodei made the call in a press briefing in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.
Flanked by the communities legal team of Prof. Festus Emiri and Stanley Damabide, Alogodei alleged that the invasion of their communities was being Masterminded by the Nigerian Agip Oil Company and Darlon Security Nigeria Limited in connivance with some indigenes of Igbomotoru communities.
He further alleged that the armed military men attached to Darlon Security Nigeria Limited led by Guyman Bekewari believed to be working for Darlon Security stormed the community and started shooting sporadically, burning down houses, loot of cash and properties, molesting, raping and defiling married women, girls causing fear and pandemonium.
Alogodei said the alleged the act of invasion is being perpetrated to deny the people of development project by Agip which has operated in the area for decades, adding that the persistent attack on the communities is carried out the military attached to Darlon Security and Agip in the guise of looking for hoodlums.
The acting paramount Ruler emphasised that action of the armed military men is against their standard code of conduct and international best practices, maintaining that with properties destroyed, businesses fustrated life in the communities have degenerated to the Hobbessian state of being short, nasty and brutish.
He urged the federal government of Nigeria, the Bayelsa State Government and the international community to end the sad tales before the communities are rendered desolate.
He said: ” the negative impact of the foregoing unwarranted and unjustified invasion and attack on the inhabitants of our communities is better imagined as they now live in a state of nervousness and fear, making it difficult for the people of these communities to live a normal pre-invasion and attack life.
” These military men and boys under the control of Darlon Security Nigeria Limited on the 2nd of July, 2022 went into houses of indigenes and inhabitants and ransacked same in search of God knows what. They have no regard for the Almighty God in that they ransacked the house of a resident Clergyman, the Pastor of the Baptist Church.
” The desecration got to its peak when they broke into the Baptist Church Building, harassed the Pastor, tumble the Alter upside down and desecrated the entire house of God in the name of searching for firearms which were non existent as they found none”, the statement added.
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