Six staff of a private security company deployed to the Rivers headquarters of Winners Chapel Church, at Kaduna Street, D-Line, Port Harcourt, are now in police net for allegedly stealing and attempting to sell property of the church.
It was gathered that the security men were intercepted by men of PHALGA Security Watch when they were conveying the metal rods and other church property to a place in D-Line, where the items will be sold.
The Chairman of PHALGA Security Watch, Victor Ohaji, said he got intelligence at about 1a.m on Sunday morning that the security guards of the Church were conveying iron rods and other church property to unknown destination with a truck.
Ohaji said he and his men quickly mobilized to the scene, and trailed the church security guards to where the property was about to be sold.
Ohaji said though those invited to buy the stolen items on sighting them took to their heels, they were able to arrest the six security guards and retrieved the stolen items.
The vigilante group chairman also said that he and his operatives arrested Chigbo at about 3a.m on Sunday morning, while he was vandalizing a truck belonging to Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA), which was parked in front of a Church along the Ikoku axis of Ikwerre Road.
The driver of the RIWAMA truck, Chijioke Ani said he parked the truck when it ran out of diesel, but when he came back, the truck compacting component had been vandalized.
The truck driver revealed that he was alerted by residents that Chigbo who vandalized the truck was apprehended by the PHALGA Security Watch and he went to Mile 1 Police Division where the suspect is being detained.
Meanwhile, the Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of the security guards, but indicated that the suspects are five.
The spokesperson for the Rivers State Police Command, SP Grace Koko, confirmed the incident.
SP Koko said the five security guards have been conniving and selling the rods and were taking another batch sale in the early hours of Sunday when they were arrested by the vigilante operatives.
SP Koko further stated that investigations is ongoing