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Rivers state was very peaceful before IPOB suddenly killed six Soldiers and four Policemen. Destroyed all the Police stations and burnt all the courts in Oyigbo.

We all know when you kill a security operative particularly the army they

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wouldn't let you go.

They didn't stop there but started renaming communities in Rivers State and put up flags in some places.

IPOB went on to attack the Hausas and I called for the curfew when it was degenerating into a tribal conflict with the Hausas.

Everybody knows if there is one person the military doesn't like it is me but that the army doesn't like me doesn't mean I shouldn't speak the truth.

Nobody has criticized the Police or Army more than me but you don't go and kill them and expect me to tell you welldone.

Saying i sent soldiers to oyigbo to kill Igbo people is nonsense because I have no relationship with the Army and can't command the Army, I can't even command the Police much more to direct the army.

What I said and still maintain is that security agencies should maintain the ban on IPOB and shouldn't allow their activities anywhere in the State as no sane govt would sit back and encourage the kind of destruction they carried out.

The only problem with Oyigbo is the activities of IPOB not Igbo people. We have lived peacefully and intermarried with the Igbos for years and nothing can change that. Oyigbo people should also rise to the occasion and assist in flushing the IPOB extremists from among them.

The story of house to house killings in Oyigbo is false but as a further measure we have called for a Security Council meeting to review the security situation in Oyigbo.