Suspected shooters have murdered Charles Miniku, A vital leader of Orokpor town in Rumueme Community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.
It was accumulated that Miniku was killed on Friday night amid a meeting with different boss in the zone inside the town lobby.
SUNDAY PUNCH learnt that the advancement created freeze in the territory as a few structures were set burning.
A source, who talked on condition secrecy, said the shooters raged the gathering of boss meeting gone to by some customary rulers and boss, and shot their objective to death.
The source uncovered that the young, faithful to the killed boss, went on frenzy and professedly torched places of the general population they connected with the murdering.
Miniku, until his demise, was the secretary of a group of the group initiative, which had been in debate. A year ago, Miniku got away from a death after he was blamed for murdering an opponent boss in the group.
Property worth a huge number of naira were pulverized in the group by the rampaging adolescents yet the uproar was later quieted through the intercession of the police.
Another source, recognized just as Prince, said the murder was identified with a few public issues concerning Miniku inside the group. Sovereign connected the murder to chieftaincy tussle and sharing of qualifications from Nigerian Agip Oil Company situated in the territory.
The representative for the police in Rivers, Mr. Nnamdi Omoni, said three suspects had been captured regarding the murder of the ruler.
Omoni particularly said that the police could mollify the furious young people, adding that commonality had come back to the territory.
"Yes, I can affirm the episode and we have made satisfactory arrangement. We have assumed control over the group. We presume that the circumstance could have declined and more lives would have been lost.
"In any case, we could shorten the rampaging young people. Individuals have been gotten some information about their legal obligations.''
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