A soldier, Darlington Worehu, has been killed after returning home from his military training.
He was killed Saturday night, by suspected members of Obelle Security Planning and Advisory Committee, OSPAC, in Obelle Community, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, Vanguard is reporting.Â
But there are reports exonerating the vigilante group that the killers, who were on a uniform that looked like that of OSPAC, were actually cultists that impersonated the local vigilante group to carry out the act.
A source in the area, Kemjika Amadi, narrated that they only heard gunshots late on Saturday night and woke Sunday morning to hear that Darlington had been murdered.
Amadi said the development has caused palpable fear in the area as soldiers have taken over the community in search of the said killers.
He noted that many of the OSPAC members fingered in the attack have all fled the community, while a number of them have been picked up by security operatives.
The source said Darlington had returned to the community after completing his training as a military man, regretting that the killers took his life when he was about to commence a full career in the Nigerian Army.
Amadi said the soldier was killed in front of their compound in Obelle, alleging that some persons within the area sustained bullet wounds.
However, a former Caretaker Chairman of Obelle Community Development Committee, Mr Israel Anele, an uncle to the late military personnel, claimed his brother was shot dead by OSPAC members in the community.