Tina Amanda
The Inspector-General of Police, MOHAMMED ABUBAKAR-ADAMU, has said that there will be no peace for unrepentant criminals and cultist that keep terrorizing communities across the country.
IGP ABUBAKAR-ADAMU stated this during a peace and development programme held in Elele Alimini community in Emohua, where some group of cultist known as”Degbam” from Ikwerre and Emohua Local Government areas of Rivers State embraced peace and surrendered their arms and ammunition.
The IGP who was represented by the Commander of Anti-Cultism Unit of the Police, Elele Command, DSP YUSUF IDI, assured the repented cultists that any of them who genuinely repent and submit his arms to security agencies would be forgiven while advising them not to go back to their past life.
He, however, encouraged the young men not to depend on government for white-collar jobs, urging them to acquire some skills and engage in small scale business that will help them to succeed in life.
The President-General of Ikwerre-Etche Youth Forum, GIDEON ISAAC-OKPAKA, the facilitator of the programme, appealed to security agencies to give those cultists who are yet to surrender their arms and embrace peace till November before declaring them enemies of the state and advised the repented cultists not to entertain fear in any way.
On his part, PROMISE IMO, leader of the repentant Degbam cult group expressed mixed feelings over the absence of the rival cult gang, while urging the government and security agencies to move into the communities where the cultist uses as hideouts to operate and fetch them out.
Our reporter Tina Amanda gathered that some of the arms and ammunition submitted by the repentant cultists are; pump-action, AK47, live ammunition and cartridges.
