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Spokesperson for the state Police Command, Grace Iringe-Koko, said this after a stakeholder in Ahoada West raised the alarm that suspected cultists were demanding N10m security levy in some communities in the area.
The Rivers State Police Command said it was unaware of any levy imposed on any community in Ahoada West Local Government Area of the state by suspected cultists.
A stakeholder, while speaking anonymously on Nigeria Info, a Port Harcourt-based radio station monitored by our correspondent, alleged that some communities in the local government area were already contributing N100,000 per household to make up the N10m levy which they termed “survival money”.
Iringe-Koko, a Superintendent of Police, however called on stakeholders in the affected communities to make a formal complaint to the police about the incident.
She stated, “For now, the Command is not aware of any levy imposed on any community in Ahoada or any other community in Rivers State.
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