The Executive Chairman of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, Ambassador Chijioke Ihunwo, has announced the immediate disbandment of the local Vigilante group known as OSPAC in the area.
Chief Press Secretary of the Council, Ofonime Okon in a statement said, the immediate disbandment is to check their excesses and high handedness in their operations.
According to him, this was part of a resolution reached at the security meeting of Obio/Akpor local government held at the Executive chamber of the council on Monday, November 11th, 2024 which was attended by heads of security agencies in Obio/Akpor LGA.
Addressing journalists after the meeting, the Executive Chairman of Obio/Akpor local government, Ambassador Chijioke Ihunwo, said the decision to disband OSPAC with immediate effect is to regulate their activities going forward.
“Beginning from today, we have banned OSPAC in Obio/Akpor, by tomorrow we are going to meet with the leadership and members of OSPAC in our LGA, this is because some paramount rulers have OSPAC which they use to fight their rivals, our intention is to profile members of this group to know who and who is carrying arms and for what purpose, in some cases you can see most of them dressed in black attire and carrying guns without approval from the police, we have already notified the commissioner of police on this move and that is why we are going to meet with them tomorrow, if you go to Alakahia, they have two OSPAC, same in Akpor and we can’t allow this to continue, they use this to loot people, some of them even have cells where the lock innocent people, this cannot continue now that we are in charge of affairs of the council.”
“On this issue of One chance, a lot of people have been looted, a victim even died two days ago when he was pushed down along the G.U. Ake road, so we have to deal with it head on, that is why i have notified all the DPOs in our LGA to immediately put motion in place to end this criminal act, we have to fish out this criminal elements who are perpetrating evil in our local government,” he said.
