Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike
Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt
A few days after the military operation in Yeghe in the Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, residents of the area have begun to flee the place following reports that the military might soon begin embark on mass arrest in the area.

No fewer than nine persons were said to have been killed during the military operation to fish out some suspected militants in the area.
But the 2 Brigade Command of the Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, had maintained that nobody died during its operation in the area.
Residents, who ostensibly did not have anywhere to go, said they would remain in their ancestral homes and witness what would happen.However, there was panic in the area on Sunday as residents abandoned their homes and moved to neighbouring communities as a result of a rumour that soldiers were going to pay another visit to Yeghe community.
The Paramount ruler of Bua Yeghe, Chief Barinada Barine, confirmed the tension in his community as a result of the rumoured raiding of the place by soldiers.
The traditional ruler, who spoke when some members of the Peoples Democratic Party came to donate some food items to members of the community, urged the state and the Federal Government to intervene in the matter.
Barine said, “We heard that soldiers are coming to Yeghe for mass arrest tomorrow, Monday. As I am talking now, there is already four vans loaded with soldiers in Bori. We don’t know what their mission is again in this place.
“We are afraid. If not that today is Sunday, you wouldn’t have seen anybody around. I want to plead with the army authorities and the government to help us remove the army because we are not at war here.”
The 2 Brigade Public Relations Officer, Captain Eli Lazarus, described the claim that soldiers were planning an invasion to the area as false and unfounded.
Lazarus explained that the troops seen by indigenes of Gokana were soldiers on normal routine patrol.