By Emma Amaize

WARRI—UGBORIKOKO community in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State has sent a Save Our Souls, SOS, appeal to the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, over an alleged reign of terror unleashed on the people by a gang of criminals.

The community, in a petition to the Commissioner, by their solicitor, C.E. Itohan, alleged that the community was under siege by a vicious gang that shot and wounded three persons, namely, Richmond Odafe, Marvis Otiewo and Emmanuel Edijala, last Wednesday.

According to the petition, the criminal gang had not only prevented the Ugborikoko Community Management Committee from operating, but overran and turned the community’s secretariat to a stronghold, where it carried out attacks on innocent Urhobo peolpe.

“Since its inauguration, the Ugborikoko Management Committee, which is the internal organ of Ugborikoko people for maintaining law and order and sustaining peace in the community in conjunction with the state security agencies, has been deprived of functioning properly by these gangsters, who now occupied and use its secretariat for their nefarious activities,” it said.