Tina Amanda
Some members of a local vigilante group known as OSPAC in Omademe, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, have allegedly shot one Godspower Dimkpa to death, a native of IPO 2, after collecting the sum of 25,000 naira as bail.
The incident which took place on Thursday 26, January, comes barely forty-eight hours after the Commissioner of Police Rivers State, CP Effiong Okon, reiterated the ban on the use of firearms and detention of suspects by a local vigilante group in the state.
The deceased Godspower Dimkpa who was twenty-nine years old and father of two children was said to have been ambushed and shot to death by some Omademe OSPAC members on his way to his Community in IPO 2, after being released from OSPAC cell.
In an interview with our correspondent, the Elder brother of the deceased Luggard Dimkpa, narrated that he sold land to a man in his backyard, the tenant finished building, fenced his house and packed in, adding “I don’t know what caused the issue between my late brother and the tenant in question”.
He said his tenant and the Community Development Chairman (CDC) in IPO brought OSPAC members from Omademe to arrest his late brother Godspower Dimkpa.
“On our way back, OSPAC attacked us on the road. OSPAC Omademe is aware of my brother’s death because they have paid them before to come and kill me, they did not succeed. Their mission was to kill me and my brother that same day, as they attacked us on the road where I went to bring my late brother out from the OSPAC cell.
“When the Omademe OSPAC attacked us that Thursday night, I ran into the bush and right there they shot at my brother.
“One or two persons have been arrested in connection to the murder and are being detained at Igwurita Police station now with the man (tenant) but they are yet to arrest the CDC Chairman and some other persons linked to the killing”.
