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OSPAC operatives
A father of two identified as Confidence Ikechi was over the weekend beaten to death at Elele community, Ikwerre local government area of Rivers State.
He was allegedly murdered by operatives of the local vigilante group, code named ‘Organized Security Planning and Advisory Committee’ (OSPAC).
Chiwenkpe Ikechi, elder brother to the deceased, told newsmen on Sunday that when his late brother closed from around 11pm, on Friday, he returned to his compound where he had altercation with a lady identified as one of his co-tenants.
He said in the midst of the quarrel , the lady slapped and poured saliva on the deceased, when he retaliated and slapped her back, the lady and her son started hitting him with sticks.
He said when the situation got out of hand, the lady rushed out and called her boyfriend, Godspower who is a vigilante operative, who later drove into the compound with his colleague, ‘J Boy’, and started hitting the deceased with machete and sticks till he bled and died.
He said he had to report the matter to the police division in the area, while the vigilante operative, his girlfriend and her son had been arrested and the matter transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, (SCIID) in Port Harcourt for further investigation.
“My brother closed from work and came back by 11pm. He came to where I work and drank, then went back to his compound when a lady in the compound started embarrassing him, that he is a drunkard, that he is smelling.”
“She now poured saliva on him. When Confidence retaliated, she and her son attacked him with sticks.
“As if that was not enough, the lady ran out and called her boyfriend who is an OSPAC man, two of them came and killed my brother (Confidence). They drove into the compound, used stick and machete to hit him on his chest, stomach and back, he started bleeding until he died.
“The next morning, I now rushed to the Police station to report the matter, when I returned from the Police station, the OSPAC person also came back to confirm if the young boy was actually dead and he also dropped message that Confidence brothers and the community could not do anything to them.”
Police Spokesman in Rivers State, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, who confirmed the killing to Daily Trust, said the suspects had been arrested and transferred to State Criminal Investigative and Department (SCID) for investigation. (Daily Trust)
