About 2,000 cult
members on Saturday embraced the amnesty declared by the Rivers State
Government.
The cult members, who were involved in
kidnappings, killings and armed robberies in the past, surrendered their
weapons before members of the state Amnesty Committee in Isiokpo, the
headquarters of Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state.
Some of the weapons surrendered by them
included AK 47 rifles, G3, dane guns, dynamite, NATO gun and detonators.
Speaking shortly after
receiving weapons from the repentant militants, the Chairman of the Amnesty
Committee, Mr. Ken Chinda, explained that peace was expected to return to
Ikwerre council area after the event.
Identifying the cult groups as Iceland and
Debam, Chinda charged them to not to go back to crime, adding that the state
government was sincere about helping them to achieve their dreams.
Chinda warned that soldiers would fish out
militants that refused to accept the amnesty declared by Governor Nyesom Wike.
-Punch
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