The state Commissioner of Police, Francis Mobolaji Odesanya, who gave the warning, in Port Harcourt, Thursday night, said that the police would not tolerate any acts capable of disrupting the fragile peace presently prevailing in the state on the alter of protest.
Odesanya, said that any protest to force government to turn around the course of time in the trial of Nnamdi Kanu for treasonable felony, would not work.
He noted that any protesters, who take the laws in their hands would be severely dealt with.
The police commissioner stated that while Rivers State is a hospitable and accommodating state, the security agencies would not fold their hands and watch disgruntled and misguided elements disrupt the peace of the state.
Odesanya, cautioned parents and guardians to ensure that their children and wards are not used as pawns by some criminal elements to foment trouble in the state, warning that dire consequences await anyone who violates the law and breaches the peace.
He said that police personnel have been placed on red alert and at strategic locations to foil any attempt to disrupt free flow of traffic, and normal activities in the state, adding that resistance to police orders to disperse would trigger the use of force to crush offenders.
The police boss, while acknowledging the force's respect for citizens right to lawful assembly, warned that any gathering that could trigger violence and breakdown of law and order, would not be condoned.
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