DELTA: Cops fish out 5 suspects who masterminded Ugborodo mayhem

The long arm of the law has caught up with five leaders of the Ugborodo National Youth Movement, UNYM, Ugborodo, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, who allegedly ambushed and attacked members of the Ugborodo Community Management Committee.

The five masterminds who masterminded the action penultimate Wednesday, on the Warri waterways were apprehended by the police according to the Commissioner of Police, Delta State Command, Mr. Zanna Ibrahim.

Revealing more about the suspects, the CP said the five suspects were all executives of UNYM.

Ibrahim who informed that the case is under investigation, asserted that; “On August 23, 2017 at about 1000 hours, the Secretary of Ugborodo Community Management Committee reported that 12 indigenes of the community, who left Warri to participate in a meeting were ambushed by four speed boats on the waterways, which rammed into their boat and it sunk.”

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“It resulted to one Omayomi Samuel missing and his corpse was later recovered. 11 others reportedly swam to safety. The Marine Police and Nigeria Navy Service, NNS Delta mobilized for search and rescue,” he added.

The attack and killing by members of the youth movement according to a member of the community who pleaded anonymity was sparked after attempt by some factional leaders to stop the Chief Austin Oborogbeyi-led UCMC recently inaugurated by the state government from gaining access to the town.

“UCMC members and other villagers embarked on the journey to their home community, Ugborodo, to attend a congress, reportedly called by the Eghara-Aja (oldest man), Pa Wellington Ojogor, to address the community on how the committee intended to execute its task.

“There had been a long drawn conflict over who should constitute the local authority over the community with some interests led by the community’s Olaja-Orori (spiritual head) of the community, Benson Omadeli, rejecting what they viewed as an attempt by non-resident elites of the community and the state government to foist the then Export Processing Zone (EPZ) Interface Committee, on them,” the community member asserted.

 

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