Rivers State Governor , Nyesom Wike, has alleged that members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra killed six soldiers and four policemen during the # EndSARS protests.
Wike stated this when the national leadership of the Nigerian Guild of Editors paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House , Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital , on Friday.
The governor said the protest was peaceful in the state until the group took the law into their own hands, saying , “ I don ’ t support criminality . IPOB killed six army officers , four policemen, burnt police stations and court buildings . ”
“ This is Rivers State . Go to Oyigbo and see the level of destruction . Now the state government will be rebuilding those facilities . Those who don ’t understand our actions are saying we are fighting the Igbo . How will they allow criminals to speak for them when there are intelligent Igbo people to speak for them ?
“ If they (IPOB ) are aggrieved , instead of channelling it to the right quarters , they go and kill innocent people and destroy public places (sic ), ” he stated .
Wike also said it was impossible to fight Boko Haram without intelligence , suggesting the lack of intelligence had made it impossible to trace the leader behind the # EndSARS protest .
He said , “ Look at what has happened . There were # EndSARS protests across the country . Nobody knows how the youths were able to organise themselves without a leader.
“ Up until now , intelligence can ’ t even know how they did it and who’ s behind them . Without good intelligence , how can Nigeria even defeat Boko Haram ?”
