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River State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has placed a ban on a proposed meeting by a group, United Igbo Community in the Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state.<\/div>\n
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\nThis came amidst concerns that the meeting could spark a fresh unrest in the area.<\/p>\n

The meeting by a group, comprising Igbo residents, was scheduled over the weekend.<\/p>\n

In a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, Wike directed security agencies to ensure that the planned meeting did not hold in a bid to prevent a breakdown of law and order in the area.<\/p>\n

The governor had in October, 2020, declared a 24-hour curfew in Oyigbo after a police station was attacked by hoodlums and a reprisal by the military which led to the killing of a number of IPOB members.<\/p>\n

The governor, who said Rivers won\u2019t allow troublemakers to take the law into their own hands also declared a N50 million bounty on a leader of the pro-Biafra group, Indigenous People of Biafra, in the state, one Stanley Mgbere.<\/p>\n

The Governor had also imposed a 24-hour curfew on Oyigbo as the violence threatened to spiral out of control but denied that soldiers had been killing people in the area.<\/p>\n

He said, “It is not correct that soldiers are going from house to house to kill. When the IPOB killed the Army officers, they took their guns. It is normal for them [army] to recover those guns. In any case, there are consequences when soldiers are killed.”<\/p>\n

The Igbos in Rivers State and Oyigbo in particular have been living in fears since last year despite all the plea by well meaning Nigerians for the government to lift the restrictions placed on the ethnic group from engaging with their
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