Andoni-Bonny Crisis: Victim's Father Laments

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Father of one of the adolescents, Gogo Onyeoma, who was killed in the Andoni-Bonny Crisis, yesterday asserted that military men, guided by young people of Finima, are in charge of the demise of his child, Goodnews Gogo.


As indicated by him "I was in my home when the warriors with Finima young men, around 40, attacked and began thrashing individuals. Before I recognized what was occurring, my child, who was in my front, was shot dead.

"By 1.30pm, they had shot and slaughtered Goodnews, executed one pregnant lady and murdered Lazarus. They cleared out and all of a sudden returned requesting my child's body. The troopers needed to take the body, yet I detected it and immediately evacuated him. That was the means by which they cleared out."

22 year old Goodnews was among Andoni pioneers, including a pregnant lady, purportedly executed April 22 when military staff shielding oil establishments in Bonny territory, moved into the angling settlements over blending strife between the Andoni pilgrims and the proprietor, Finima.

His Majesty, Dr. Mill operator Ikuru, Ikwut VII, Okaan-Ama Ikuru, Chairman, Andoni Area Council of Traditional Rulers, in an instructions in Port Harcourt, yesterday asserted that "the baseless assault on April 9 and 22 by Finima and Andoni in the angling ports brought about killing of five, numerous others suffocated but then others missing till this minute."

Nonetheless, Finima General Youth Leader, Eric Tay-Brown, noticed that there was a vague side of the story

"They guaranteed on April 9 that Finima young people snatched one of their individual, Prophet Blessing. We got the police, JTF to examine and nothing of such was built up.

"Presently we heard that Blessing, purportedly snatched, has been located in Ngo, Andoni town. Yet, they felt free to assaulted Anthony Diepriye, a Finima child, about pounding the life out of him. We announced the issue to Police and warriors who went in for examination. In any case, Andoni individuals assaulted the security agents and I hear it got lethal."

In the mean time Police Public Relations Officer, Rivers State Command, Nnamdi Omoni, likewise stated: "I can likewise affirm that two people passed on there. That experience was between men of the JTF and young people in Finima angling settlement. They assaulted them and there was return fire, which clarifies the circumstance. Regularity has been reestablished to the region."

The Andoni Area conventional chamber, however demanded "Boss and the general population of Bonny should, without assumptions, help law requirement organizations in their examinations to get to the base of this issue keeping in mind the end goal to reestablish peace and regularity in the territory."

Naija News, prior announced that five people were affirmed dead by group pioneers in the zone after the conflict.

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