By Suleiman Anyalewechi
Two senior staff members of the Ahoada East local council of Rivers State have been declared wanted by the Rivers State Police Command in connection with the brutal mob attack on the Chairman of the Council.
The Source reports that the Local Government Chairman, Goodluck Iheamnacho, was on Friday, June 20, 2025, attacked and assaulted by some suspected thugs.
The suspected thugs numbering over 30, according to the Police, invaded the Council Secretariat, ransacked and vandalized the Chairman’s office.
They were said to have made away with the Chairman’s personal effects including his mobile phone, and Council vital documents after brutalizing and forcing the Chairman to resign his appointment.
Hector Ekeakita and Aloni Olodi, the Council’s Chief Security Officer, CSO, and Chief of Staff, CoS, to the Chairman, respectively, according to a Police statement at the weekend are suspected to have masterminded and led the attack on the Chairman.
The statement issued by the Rivers State Police, Friday, June 20, 2025, Command spokesperson Grace Irenge-Koko, accused the two wanted Council staff of failing to honour earlier invitations extended to them by the police authorities.
Consequently, the State Police Commissioner, CP Olugbenga Adepoju, has advised the suspects to report themselves immediately to the State Police headquarters on Moscow road Port Harcourt .
This is as the CP warned of dare consequences for anyone found to be shielding the suspects from the law.
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