Gunmen Reportedly Kill Two Soldiers, Abduct Construction Workers In Rivers Community

Fear Grips Odual Communities as gunmen allegedly kill two soldiers in Odual, Abua/Odual Local Government Area of Rivers State.

It was gathered that the incident occurred at the Ekaago-Ogboloma-Adada road project site being executed by the State Government on Tuesday, August 8, 2023.

The Project was initiated and commenced under former Governor Nyesom Wike’s tenure.

Sources close to the communities, who broke the news to newsmen in Port Harcourt, said although the hoodlums did not succeed in abducting their targeted expatriate on the site, they, however, whisked away three workers on the project site and a man returning from his farm at the time of the operation.

“Some hoodlums came to the Ogboloma road construction site on Tuesday with the intention of kidnapping the white manhandling the road. They laid ambush and waited for them to resume duty. So on sighting the army they shot the two army personnel and killed them,” a source said.

“They also kidnapped the foreman, three other workers, and one farmer who was returning from the farm in Ogboloma community. They took away the rifles of the soldiers and escaped through Esala River after serious shooting.”

“With this, the army came to make some arrests in Emelego and Ogboloma communities but we are all living in fear. We all have been sleeping in the bush; there is panic everywhere because we don’t know the next move the army will make.”

He noted some arrests have been made by the Army in connection with the attack but expressed fears about the fate of residents in the communities.