A yet-to-be-identified Ijaw youth, has allegedly been shot dead by vigilante operatives in Ughoton Community in Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State.
It was gathered that the gory incident occurred on Saturday when the suspected Ijaw youth refused to ‘settle’ the vigilantes at Ughoton Community when he was found carrying some crude oil products suspected to have been siphoned illegally from a pipeline through Ughoton, en route to the upland for delivery.
According to PUNCH, a sources said the Ughoton vigilante chairman reportedly mobilised and went to the neighbouring Ijaw community and killed the man, whose wife was said to have just given birth to a baby.
It was further gathered that some angry youths in the said Ijaw community, who were infuriated by the murder of one of their own, embalmed the corpse of the deceased, and took it to the home of the father of the chairman of Ughoton Community vigilante.
Consequently, some residents of Ughoton were said to have resorted to fleeing the community following speculations that aggrieved youths from the Ijaw settlement, “were gearing up for war.”
The State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, could not be reached for comments on the incident as of the time of filing this report.