Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt
Angry youths of Rumuokparali Community in Obio-Akpor local government area have staged a peaceful protest against the beheading of two brothers by suspected cultists on Tuesday night just as the homicide department of Rivers State Police command have started a manhunt for the killers.
The youths shut down Rumuokparali waterside market and blocked a section of Ozuoba road in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State in anger while asking the Police to find the heads of the victims because it is against the customs and tradition of the village to bury corpses without their heads.
The angry youths said they are not satisfied with Police explanation about how they discovered the headless corpses identified as Ifeanyi and Emeka Wobo, on Tuesday, around Elekahia Housing Estate in the same LGA.
They headless corpses were said to be that of the sons of Late Chief Oliver Wobo.
“Let the Police bring the heads of our brothers. We have seen their bodies but let them bring their heads so that we can bury them. Please Governor Wike we need protection.”
The deceased were last seen in Rumuoparali on Monday evening and that on Tuesday morning, their decapitated bodies were discovered by the police.
The Police were said to have gotten Ifeanyi’s wallet and found his identity card and traced his next of kin to the company, where he acquired pipeline welding skill.
It was further gathered that Police used the ID card to get his next of kin and informed him of the discovered corpses in Elekahia Housing Estate in Port Harcourt.
A family member, Wisdom Wobo said “the last time we heard from Emeka and Ifeanyi was when they left for Garrison Junction area to meet a friend shortly after receiving a telephone call.
Ifeanyi received a telephone call and came to Emeka’s room to call him that somebody calling him in Garrison area and they left.
Later, the girlfriend was calling one of them and nobody was picking the calls. It was around 3 pm that we received calls from Police Officers and we were shown some pictures and we went to the scene and identified that bodies as that of Ifeanyi and Emeka.
The tragic demise of the two brothers has caused agony and devastation to the community.
Meanwhile, the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Nnamdi Omoni, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), has confirmed the incident to journalists. He said efforts were on to unravel the circumstances that led to their death.
He sympathized with the family of the bereaved and pleaded with them to exercise patience as the Commissioner of Police has ordered full scale investigation into the double murder of two brothers by beheading them.