The Onelga Security and Peace Advisory Committee, OSPAC has come under criticism over alleged arrest and detention of innocent individuals in Rumudele community in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The OSPAC is also accused of collecting huge amount of money as bail before releasing suspects from their cell.
One of the victims of the arrest, Luis Alete-Dimkpa said he was among the ten persons arrested by members of OSPAC in a beer palor in his community which they claimed was along East West road.
Alete-Dimkpa said he and other victims were first taken to uncompleted building at Rumuji before moving them to OSPAC barrack at Omoku where they were rough handled and later granted bail with the sum of fifty thousand naira each.
He threatened to take legal action against the onelga Local vigilante outfit over what he described as illegal and unlawful arrest, deformation of character and assault.
When our correspondent contacted the Rivers State Police Command, the Public Relations officer, Nnamdi Omoni denied knowledge of the arrest, detention and illegal bail of the suspects, saying that the suspects were not handed over to the police for proper investigation and possible prosecution.
Meanwhile, OSPAC is yet to react to the allegations as of the time of filing this report.
SPONSORED FROM: THE PEOPLE OF DABIRA, COMMUNITY BILLE KINGDOM. DATE: JANUARY 23, 2025 We, the people of Dabira community, hereby submit this formal reply in response to the Ijaw National Congress (I.N.C) press release issued by the Elem-Kalabari Council of Chiefs on January 23, 2025. In response to the claims made by the Elem-Kalabari community, we provide the following perspectives based on territorial rights, historical ownership, and the law. 1. TERRITORIAL CLAIMS AND ENCROACHMENT We categorically reject the assertion by the Elem-Ama Council that the Bille people’s claims of encroachment are "false alarms." The ongoing surveying activities in the Cawthorne Channel area, which have been identified as encroaching on Bille lands, are clear legal violations under customary and statutory law. According to established legal principles governing the ownership and use of land, including the Nigerian Land Use Act (1978), the rights of indigenous communities to their ancestral lan...
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