Residents desert Kokori as soldiers search for Kelvin’s armoury, associates

No fewer than six schools and the only health centre in Kokori have been abandoned by teachers, students and medical personnel, following the siege laid to the community by soldiers.

Kokori is the home of arrested alleged kidnap kingpin, Kelvin Oniarah, in Ethiope-East Local Government Area, Delta State.


Nigerian News learnt that teachers, health workers, parents and their children fled for fear of falling into the hands of soldiers combing the community for the armoury and associates of Kelvin.

A source told Vanguard, yesterday, that Kokori Girls School, Kokori; Ozegbe Primary School; Anigboro School; Erijere Model School; Samono Primary and Secondary Schools; Samono Primary and Secondary Schools; Suprina Academy and All Saints Modern College/Primary School had all temporarily shut down.