The police command in Rivers state has confirmed the kidnap of Dcn Peter Timothy Igbifa, the President of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Worldwide.
Controversies surrounded the whereabouts of the Rivers-born activist on Tuesday with emerging reports of his alleged kidnap, while other quarters suggested he was picked up by the DSS.
However, the police command has confirmed Comrade Igbifa was kidnapped along Airport Road in Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital.
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Confirming the report, the Rivers state Police Public Relations Officer, Nnamdi Omoni, said;
“Yes, I can confirm that he was abducted along the Airport Road. When we got the information, we deployed our technical intelligence to make sure that his whereabouts is known and for him to reunite with his family.”
Sources say the IYC President had contacted his driver to confirm his kidnap, and asked the driver to tell Ijaw youths to go on with a planned protest, saying, “Nobody can infringe on the rights of the Niger Delta people.”
His kidnap was also confirmed by the Chairman, Action Committee, Strategy, Planning and Programmes, Israel Fubara.
“It is information that we got. But we are making our findings. We have already put machinery in place to see how we can actually know what happened. So, we are investigating,” Fubara confirmed.
He further said the Ijaw youths had planned to shut down the region, saying, “Likely today (Tuesday) midnight, then action can begin because we wanted to exhaust the time limit before we can stage our action.”
“We will liken the NDDC to the North-East Commission. But the politics played in NDDC can never be imagined in the North-East Commission,” Fubara added.
Meanwhile, Ijaw youths have resolved to shutdown the Niger Delta region over the federal government’s refusal to constitute a substantive board for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
