BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME

PORT HARCOURT—There is a new twist in the case of six suspects arrested by the Joint Task Force, JTF, recently for illegal possession of fire arms. The suspects were handed over to the Police.

But the community has said the youths were sent to recover the arms.

According to the Amayanabo of Ogu, King Nicholas Biobele, the community got wind of an alleged plot by a neighbouring community to invade his community, hence the youths were sent to go in search of the arms being amassed and retrieve same.

He said those arrested were community vigilante, who recovered the arms that would have been used by a neighbouring community to attack his community.

He said they recovered the rifles but were apprehended on their way back by the JTF, adding that those linking Senator George Sekibo and a member of the state House of Assembly, Evans Bipi, to the issue were being unfair. He said that the matter had nothing to do with politics.