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In a statement made available by the commands spokesman, DSP Bright Edafe, disclosed that on September 5, 2022 at about 1125hrs, operatives attached to Eagle-Net Special Squad while on visibility patrol along Issele-Azagba/Ogwashi-Uku road, acting on credible information intercepted a tricycle (Keke) with Delta State Commercial colour Reg. No. AWK 941 QC and tag No. DT/CT/10550B driven by one Anthony Onyekaba ‘m’ of No. 223 Asei Quarters Azagba Ogwashi-Uku with four occupants. 

Speaking further, Oboba said following the leadership tussle and to avoid further crisis, HRM, Dr. Oharisi III, Ovie of Ughelli kingdom, instructed the out gone  chairman, Mr. Francis Okevvie to keep all properties of the community in the custody of Ofuoma police station pending when the issue is resolved.
Oboba narrated that the case is still in Ughelli Magistrate Court with Suit No. MU/56/2022, restraining the oldest man in the community, Mr. Jackson Uke and others from conducting another election or recognizing any other person rather than Hon. Benjamin Idoghor as the newly elected chairman.

“Her colleagues were waiting for her outside as they were looking for customers but they didn’t see her. They now went to knock at her door and it was when they opened the the door that they found her dead in her room,” a source who craved anonymity, said

 It was gathered that a Toyita Sienna mini bus conveying product suspected to be illegally refines diesel lost control and ran into a parked Dangote truck.
It was learnt that the vehicle was escaping from security operatives when it lost control and ran into the parked truck, causing an explosion.

The Commissioner of Police, Delta State Command, CP Ari Mohammed Ali while briefing journalists at the Command’s headquarters in Asaba, said the deceased and two other armed men suspected to be members of IPOB attacked a police patrol team “attached to Illah Division while on stop and search duty at Ogbada quarters along Illah–Akwukwu-Igbo road,” and the team in response, “engaged them in a fierce gun duel during which one of the hoodlums was neutralized while the other members of the gang escaped with gunshot injuries.