APC chieftains instigates Army return to Ogoni again ---OEN

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(Nigeria) Ogoni Ethnic Nationality, OEN, an Ogini pressure group, has raised alarm of rumours of another invasion, being planned by the military for Yeghe community in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State and other communities in Khana and Tai Local Government Areas of the state.
The group in an online message, recalled that residents of the areas,  who fled their homes for safety following the alleged killing of over 17 innocent persons by men of the Nigerian Army led by Captain Mustapha, allegedly drafted to the area by a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and were back home based on assurances given to them by the state Governor, Mr Nyesom Wike, when he visited the area,  have again fled their communities following rumours that the Nigerian military was coming to the areas for mass arrest.
It will be recalled that last week, fully armed soldiers had invaded Yeghe community and shut and killed over 17 persons while combing for the ex-Niger Delta agitator, Chief Solomon Ndigbara on the orders of some APC, chieftain in the areas.

Following the rumour on Sunday, life in the community was lonesome as some residents were seen going out from the community. Some other residents who do not have where to travel to said, they would hang around to see the actions of the military.
Speaking to newsmen, the Paramount ruler of Bua Yeghe, HRH Chief Barinada Barine, said that there was tension in the community over the news of re-invasion of the area by the military for mass arrest.
Barine who spoke,  when a delegation of chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rivers South East senatorial district led by the Secretary to the State Government, Kenneth Kobani visited the community to donate some food items to the community said, the community has been thrown into tension.
The monarch pleaded with the local, state and federal governments, and other well meaning individuals to intervene, adding that the community would be sacked if nothing was done.
 "We heard that army are coming to Yeghe again for mass arrest on Monday or any other day not known to us. As I am talking now, there is already four vans loaded with soldiers in Bori."
"We don't know what their mission is again in this place. We are afraid. If not that today is Sunday you wouldn't have seen anybody around.
"I want to plead with army authority and the government to help us remove the army because we not fighting war here."
He also thanked the state governor, Mr. Wike and chieftains of the PDP, Rivers South East senatorial district for remembering the people in their time of sorrow and trouble, adding that the people need peace.
Meanwhile, the army, is alleged to have provided accommodation to the APC chieftain at the defunct Social Democratic Party, SDP secretariat on Bori Road, opposite Bori Police station.
The APC chieftains in Ogoni, were seen with the army in the area on Sunday.
It will  be recalled that in 1995 during the military invasion of Ogoni and killing of prominent Ogoni leaders, including Ken Saro-Wiwa, the APC chieftains were also at the centre of the controversy.

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