the militants' corpses lying on the ground

 

According to reports making rounds online, a notorious cultist and militant leader of the Ekpeye Liberation Front, popularly called General Igbudu and five of his commanders, have been killed in a gun duel by the Joint Task Force at Ahoada East LGA in the Orashi region of Rivers state on Saturday night.

 

It was gathered that the leader of the gang, General Igbudu and his colleagues had held the towns and villages of Ekpeye kingdom hostage, killing, maiming, robbing, rapping kidnapping unhindered until they met their Waterloo at Odiemirenyi village were they were said to have earlier attacked an army team attached to a multinational oil firm whose staff were carrying out repair works on a damaged oil pipeline.

 

Another report stated that they were shot dead when they went on a robbery operation on Ahoada East portion of the East West road.

 

Residents are currently streaming to the Police station to catch a glimpse of the corpse of the gang that terrorised the area for long.

 

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