Anxiety as vigilante allegedly kills Ijaw youth in Delta community

The vigilante operatives in Okpe Local Government Area in Delta state have been accused of killing a yet-to-be-identified Ijaw youth on Monday.

The incident reportedly occurred in the Ughoton community when the Ijaw youth was allegedly killed by the vigilante operatives on Saturday.

According to a report by Fresh Angle news online said the suspected Ijaw youth refused to ” settle” the vigilantes at Ughoton Community when he was found carrying some crude oil products suspected to have been siphoned illegally from a pipeline through Ughoton, en route to the upland for delivery.

The report further alleged that the Ughoton Vigilante chairman reportedly mobilized to the neighbouring Ijaw community and killed the man, whose wife just gave birth to a baby.

“Infuriated by the murder of one of their own, angry youths in the said Ijaw community, embalmed the corpse of the man reportedly murdered by the Ughoton vigilantes and took it to the home of the father of the chairman of Ughoton vigilante on Saturday, December 17.

“As of this morning when this report was published, it was unclear if the corpse had been taken over by security agencies or returned to the Ijaw community, but indications emerged that some persons were already fleeing Ughoton, following speculations that youths from the Ijaw settlement, were gearing up for war,” the report noted.

However, efforts to reach the police spokesman, DSP Bright Edafe for comment were not fruitful as he didn’t respond to calls put across to him.