There are reports of rising tension following the killing of one Pastor Abraham Yorka at his home town,Oloko in Tai Local Government Area by gunmen suspected to be OSPAC members on Thursday(28th,April,2022) allegedly from a neigbouring Community in Oyigbo Local Government Area.
A member of the Oloko community who identified himself as Monday Piit told our correspondent on Telephone that the men of Oloko community went to eat after working on a community farmland from Oloko in Tai LGA to boundary of Afam in Oyigbo LGA when they suddenly heard the women and children in the farmland started shouting and the next thing they heard was gunshots which made everybody scampered to safety.
Mr Piit disclosed that the gunmen started burning houses, shooting at people and also burnt his motorcycle.
Mr Piit stated that it was later that Oloko community discovered it was OSPAC allegedly from a neigbouring Community in Oyigbo LGA as some of their Youth who escaped from the assailants revealed the identity of the assailants to them.
Mr Piit also alleged that some of the natives of Oloko community are still missing.
Meanwhile one Sunday Vasighe,who says he sustained gunshot injuries on the leg and hand alleged that the gunmen who shot him are OSPAC members from neigbouring Community in Oyigbo LGA to Oloko community.Mr Vasighe called on the Rivers State Government and the Police to bring the perpetrators to book even as the incident has been reported to Koroma-Tai Police Division in Tai Local Government Area.As at press time the acting spokesperson for the Rivers State Police command, DSP Grace Koko was yet to respond to text messages sent to her mobile line.
