Residents of Victory Estate, Rumuosi, along the Port Harcourt International Airport Road are calling for help again as they have been besieged by armed invaders.
This tension erupted this morning, following fresh threats of another invasion by armed men backing suspected land grabbers identified as Colonel Ogwumerum Eke, Lord C. Nwosu, Chief Mike (aka Edo 1), Chima Providence Dike, and others.
Residents allege that the group, in connivance with operatives of the Rivers State Police Command, are deliberately attempting to illegally seize over 4,000 plots of land, destroying fences, buildings, and assaulting property owners.
The invaders are said to parade a customary court judgment that awarded about 100 plots of land to them in Rumuagholu and not Rumuosi.
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The true ownership and locations are confirmed by residents who said this is reiterated in the report of the Rivers State Surveyor General dated 11th June, 2025 marked RSS/129/T2/121 after a Geospatial analysis and overlay on the site plan marked as Exhibit A in the said Customary Court judgmenThis has no connection to Victory Estate but is being used to intimidate and dispossess lawful owners.
Eyewitnesses report that the attackers often arrive with suspected but armed cultists under police escort. They have struck at least five times in recent months. The targeted land, locals say, is historically owned by the Rumuosi people, yet the alleged grabbers hail from a neighboring community, Rumuagholu.
Afraid of an escalation into violence, the Victory Estate community is calling on the Rivers State Government and the Inspector General of Police to urgently intervene and prevent what they fear to be “pending bloodbath.
Oneron Kolawole
