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After what appears a lull in Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) activism in the country, a coalition of 127 CSOs under the Joint Action Civil Society Coalition/Nigeria Mourns Secretariat, yesterday, petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, stop the escalating insecurity in the country. They further raised the alarm that the first quarter of 2021 has witnessed all-time high fatalities and atrocious incidences across the country. x
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In what appears to have become commonplace onslaught on security personnel across the country, no fewer than 12 policemen were, at the weekend, killed in two separate attacks on police formations in Akwa Ibom and Rivers states.
The attacks, which happened on Friday night and Saturday, also saw the wife of one of the policemen killed, with some assault rifles were carted away by the attackers who also just burnt police patrol vehicles.
The latest casualty figures bring to 53, the number of policemen killed in such attacks in the last seven weeks in South-East and SouthSouth regions.
The Police Public Relations Officer for the Akwa Ibom State Command, SP Odiko MacDon, confirmed that gunmen attacked a Divisional Police headquarters at Ini Local Government Area of the state and killed six policemen and the wife of one of them.
The hoodlums attacked a police station along the Rumuji axis of the East-West Road in the state.
by SaharaReporters, New York
May 08, 2021
Gunmen on Friday night attacked security checkpoints and police stations in Rivers State, with no fewer than seven security operatives feared killed.
The hoodlums attacked a police station along the Rumuji axis of the East-West Road in the state.
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Also, the Rumuji police station in Emuoha Local Government Area was also torched; two policemen feared killed, while some vehicles were burnt.
They also attacked a police checkpoint at Ogbakiri junction in the Emuoha LGA with two police officers feared killed and a vehicle burnt.
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen on Friday night attacked security checkpoints and police stations in Rivers State, with no fewer than seven security operatives feared killed.
The hoodlums attacked a police station along the Rumuji axis of the East-West Road in the state.
Also, the Rumuji police station in Emuoha Local Government Area was also torched, two policemen feared killed, while some vehicles were burnt.
They also attacked a police checkpoint at Ogbakiri junction in the Emuoha LGA with two policemen feared killed and a vehicle burnt.
A checkpoint of the security outfit called C-4-i along the East-West Road was also attacked, even as three operatives were feared dead there.
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At least seven police officers have been killed following an attack by gunmen on two police stations in Obio-Akpor and Emuoha Local Government Areas of Rivers State on Friday night.
PUNCH reports that three policemen were feared killed, at Elimgbu police station while two were feared killed at the Divisional Police Headquarters in Rumuji. A security vehicle was also reportedly burnt.
Similarly, the checkpoint of a security outfit called C-4-i along the East-West Road was also attacked, and two security operatives were killed in the process.
The attacks which took place about 10 pm on Friday threw the communities into panic, even as an inter-state and intra-state curfew was imposed by Governor Nyesom Wike in the wake of security threats.