The paramount ruler of Egidigbo clan, Eze Gift Johnson, has urged the police to investigate the weekend’s disturbance at Rumuigbo in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The monarch also urged the police to find out why some youths from the community became violent before entering the Civic Centre on Ikwerre Road, Port Harcourt, the state capital.
Johnson spoke yesterday in Port Harcourt when he reacted to last Friday’s incident.
He said: “I was at home when they told me that some people had broken into the complex. There was no further information to me; there was no letter written to me. I am the sole custodian of that town hall. As His Majesty, the hall is under me.
“All I just heard was that they had broken into the hall. The next thing I saw that they knocked on my gate. I just saw him (the chairman) in a pool of blood. He was shouting. The next thing was that he collapsed.”
Eyewitnesses said some violent youths in Rumuigbo, last Friday, destroyed some facilities at the Civic Centre on Ikwerre road.