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He disclosed this on Friday in Oyigbo Local Government Area during the Rivers State PDP campaign for the 2023 polls.

The governor had, during a condolence visit to the State Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mukan, announced the donation of N20 million to each family of the four policemen and six soldiers reportedly killed by IPOB members in Oyigbo.

The hoodlums, suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, also burnt police stations and vehicles, while gruesomely killing security operatives.

The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, confirmed the attack to the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt.

Gov. Nyesom Wike who stated this in a statewide broadcast after a security meeting in Government House, Port Harcourt, said that the curfew would start on Wednesday at 6.30 p.m.