Rivers Assembly Explosion: Fubara’s Loyalists Remanded

GOVERNOR FUBARA 

Some loyalists of the River State Governor were on Thursday, January 25, 2024, remanded over their alleged involvement in the explosion that rocked and razed the Rivers State Assembly complex.

It would be recalled that an explosion had rocked the complex of the State Assembly amid alleged moves by some lawmakers to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara on October 30, 2023.

Even, some loyalists of the governor were said to have been behind the incident.

The loyalists who were arraigned before Justice Bolaji Olajuwon of a Federal High Court, Abuja, are Chime Eguma Ezebalike, Prince Lukman Oladele, Kenneth Goodluck Kpasa, Osiga Donald and Ochueja Thankgod.

In the charge slammed against them by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), the defendants were alleged to have been involved in terrorism by invading, vandalizing and burning down Rivers State House of Assembly during the wake of the political crisis that rocked Port Harcourt in October last year.

The defendants were equally accused of killing a Superintendent of Police (SP), Bako Agbashim, and five police informants in the Ahoada community of the state.

The police informants alleged to have been killed are Charles Osu, Ogbonna Eja, Idaowuka Felix, Paul Victor Chibuogu, and Saturday Edi.

The defendants are to remain in prison custody until February 2 when their respective bail applications will be determined by the Judge.

Specifically, the defendants were accused of using various cult groups, namely: Supreme Viking Confraternity, Degbam, Iceland, and Greenland to unleash mayhem on the people of the state and their commercial activities.

But they pleaded not guilty to the charge.

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