Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, yesterday alleged that 40 persons of Ijaw extraction were killed in Rivers State during the recent general election in the country.
A statement issued yesterday by Fidelis Soriwei, Dickson’s Special Adviser on Media Relations, noted that the governor spoke when he paid a condolence visit to the Amayanabo of Kalabari Kingdom, King Theophilus Princewill, Amachree XI. He urged the federal government to identify and prosecute the security operatives involved in the slaughter of innocent people in Rivers and Bayelsa states and elsewhere in Ijawland during the last elections.
Dickson, who commiserated with the entire Kalabari kingdom and families of the deceased, said the ancient kingdom suffered more bloodshed than any other community in the presidential election, which he described a contest between brothers and friends. Meanwhile, a former Managing Director of NDDC, Mr. Timi Alaibe, has described as sad and undeserving, the death of Seidougha Taribi, the Senior Special Assistant on Grassroots Mobilisation to Dickson, and the Government House Photographer, Reginald Dei, both of whom were killed during the elections and buried last weekend.
He stated that more painful was the fact that many weeks after the assassination of the two Nigerians, no one has been arrested and prosecuted, adding that the killing speaks to the level of insecurity in the country and at the same time, the reduction of life to nothingness.
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