The police have announced movement restrictions in seven local government areas ahead of the Rivers South-East senatorial district by-election scheduled for Saturday.
The police command in Rivers has commenced a statewide enforcement exercise against vehicles with covered, obscured, defaced, unauthorised or unregistered number plates.
The police have dismissed officers John Okoi, Eyibo Asuquo, Udo Ndipmong, Bright Nwachukwu and Anele Ikechukwu for armed robbery and kidnapping.
Security operatives arrested 13 suspected cultists during an initiation ceremony in the Eleme local council area of Rivers.
