The Rivers State Police Command has unsealed all 23 local government area secretariats in the State following the election and swearing in of new chairmen.
Spokesperson of the Command, Grace Iringe-Koko., disclosed this through a statement on Monday morning.
She said the newly deployed Commissioner of Police, CP Mustapha Bala, acting on the orders of the IGP Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the immediate withdrawal of all police personnel previously deployed to seal and safeguard the council secretariats in the State.
The secretariats were sealed in June following the disagreement between the Caretaker Committee chairmen loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the immediate past local government chairmen, who were loyalists of Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The development came after Governor Fubara had sworn-in 23 newly elected local government areas.
The exercise held on Sunday evening at the Executive Council Chambers of the Government House in Port Harcourt, a day after the Rivers State Independent National Electoral Commission (RSIEC) conducted an election at the grassroots.