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CHUKWUDI AKASIKE x-rays the unending battle between the Rivers State Government and criminal cult gangs in the state
It is not difficult to differentiate between the sound of their sophisticated guns and the regular rifles of policemen, who try to stop them. At the end, many who dropped firearms, ammunition, cutlasses and axes, went back to crime, but were killed in gun battles with the police and other security agencies. One of the dreaded cult kingpins in the state, Don Wanee, was killed barely a year after he pretended to have repented and surrendered.
In April, one person was reportedly killed as two rival cults, the Deygbam and the De-Well, clashed over the control of an illegal market in Mile 3, Diobu, Port Harcourt. The incident was said to have occurred after members of a rival cult went to the market to demand what they called ‘security fee’ from traders. The market operated at a time when the state government ordered the closure of all markets in the state in a bid to check the spread of COVID-19.
Recently, a lawmaker in the state House of Assembly, Dumle Mao, accused the state Commissioner for Agriculture, Fred Kpakor, of sponsoring cult activities, an allegation, which was strongly denied by the commissioner. A public affairs analyst, Jumbo Okwara, explained that the frightening level of unemployment in the country had already made Nigeria a breeding ground for cultism, adding that the government must get the youth busy.
In a bid to fight the menace of cultism to a standstill, Wike had assented to three bills: The Rivers State Neighbourhood Safety Corps Law No. 8 of 2018; the Rivers State Secret Cult and Similar Activities Law No. 6 of 2018; and the Rivers State Kidnap No.2 Law No. 7 of 2018.
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