Rivers Crisis: Coalition Demands Arrest, Prosecution Of Former LG Chairmen

Rivers State Ethnic Youth Leaders Coalition (RSEYLC) has demanded the arrest and prosecution of the immediate-past chairmen of the 21 local government councils for allegedly threatening the state’s peace.
RSEYLC, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt yesterday by its chairman, Dr. Legborsi Yamaabana, described the former LGA chairmen’s threats to forcefully take over the secretariats of their respective councils as a “disgraceful display of desperation and joblessness.”

Yamaabana denounced the former LGA chairmen’s actions as a deliberate attempt to incite chaos and anarchy in the state and vowed that Rivers youth would vehemently resist any such moves.

The youth leader dared the former chairmen to come near the council secretariats and vowed to mobilise youth leaders across the 23 local government areas to occupy them, ensuring that the former chairmen were barred from any unauthorised access.

He advised the former chairmen to engage in the ongoing local government election process by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) if they wish to pursue local government positions instead of allowing themselves to be manipulated into causing unrest in the state.

Yamaabana urged the Nigeria Police Force to place these individuals under strict surveillance immediately and to arrest and prosecute them for actions likely to breach the peace in Rivers State.

He urged Rivers’ youth to remain vigilant and undeterred by these troublemakers’ antics and continue their unflinching support for Governor Siminalayi Fubara.