According to the police, the suspected cultists, who were on the trail of a popular native doctor in the community, put their victims into one of the room in the native doctor’s house and set them ablaze after beheading them. In response, the inspector-general of police Solomon Arase, has deployed a team of homicide police officers to investigate the continuous killings in different communities across Rivers State.
One local community source said the native doctor, who was also killed by the suspected cultists, specialised in removing bullets from victims of gunshots. He added that the victims, who were suspected to be members of a rival cult group, were in his house for treatment from gunshot wounds when the killers struck.
Rivers State Police Command spokeswoman Grace Iringe-Koko, said that they were aware of the cult-related war but that the number of casualties remained unknown for the moment, adding that the command had started investigation. Mr Arase made it clear, however, that no one has the right to take another person’s life.
He made it clear that he has given the Rivers State police commissioner Musa Kimo, orders to track down those behind killings in the state. He pointed out that a gang of criminals could never overwhelm the security forces.
Mr Arase added: “It is unacceptable for people to take laws into their hands and this is not a Hobbesian state where might thrives. I have told the commissioner of police, he must go after whoever that has taken the lives of other people and ensure we bring them to book.”
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