Suspected Cultists Blocked Road In Diobu Rob Motorists,Road Users

Hoodlums suspected to be cultists Sunday night at about 9pm mounted road block at Uruala/Abakiliki junction,Mile 1 Diobu, PortHarcourt Rivers State, robbed motorists and road users for over minutes forty minutes without Intervention of the Police.

We gathered that the hoodlums also invaded and robbed shops at lumbumba street in Mile 1 Diobu .

A victims of the incident Mr.Tony Dike narrated his ordeal to our Correspondent.

"At Abakiliki/Urualla junction some hoodlums on black and black, stopped my car with heavy stones .

"They shot on the air and said I should come down from the car,they started flogging and cutting me machete .They collected my phones and the money I came back with from work one hundred and eighty thousand naira .At that moment they said I should come down from the car .When I saw that they want to collect the car .I have to put my car on reverse as if I want to come down from the car.Four of them wanted to enter the car,I had to speed off.

"They now soft pedal,I had to rush down to Police station to make my entry.I made my entry at Mile 1 Police station.They were holding guns,knives, broken bottles, stones,axe all sorts of weapons.They are more than fifty in numbers.

"The place was dark there was no light .When the incident happened to me another Jeep was coming from my back .The Jeep man saw the incident and tried to reverse and entered the gutter.With the force I moved with, I don't know what happened to the Jeep guy."

Meanwhile many residents have lamented the spate of armed robbery in the area since the cult war between factions of Deygbam cult groups started.

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