Port Harcourt — Residents of Port Harcourt's poorest neighbourhoods say that police have wrongly blamed them for street violence between rival cult groups last year and are carrying out indiscriminate raids into their communities motivated by financial greed not criminal investigation.
In the most recent of what residents in the Diobu neighbourhood said is a string of police incursions into their community, on the night of 17 January state police arrested at least 200 men and boys in a single raid.
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