Like people acting in obedience to a charm, the frightened victims offered their bags and pockets willingly to be searched for fear of being killed. Most of them were students of the University of Port-Harcourt (UNIPORT) who were going back home after the day’s lectures.
The molestation lasted for about three hours before the intervention of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF). Having fled the JTF, the miscreants still managed to go to some lodges in Aluu where they raped some girls and abducted some others to their camps.
The era of conflict in the hitherto volatile Niger Delta region was believed to have gone following the invitation to surrender and proclamation of an unconditional amnesty to militants by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. The amnesty saw scores of militants turning in their arms. Aluu, a community named in Ikwerre Local Government Area and neighbouring town to the UNIPORT, was selected as camp to these hitherto disgruntled elements.
As part of the post-amnesty plan, they were to be paid a monthly allowance of N65,000 for the first three months. This, the Federal Government said, was to enable it work out modalities for their full engagement and re-integration. Some 50 days after, these former guerilla fighters in Rivers State had not been paid any of their entitlements. Their patience ran out soon after.
Their weapons had been taken away but surely not their sense of violence. So, they descended on the hapless students. From Aluu, their camp, to the entrance of Delta Campus of the university, they vandalized all they could lay their hands on. They even had no qualms to molesting anything that looked like a female.
Having brought the situation under control, the JTF stationed two armoured personnel carriers at strategic locations believed to be the flash points.
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