Dear Governor,
Some days ago whilst speaking to the Members of the House of Representatives Committee on the Army investigating the military invasion of Ogoni communities, Governor Wike stated unequivocally that there are no political killings in Rivers state.
According to him, "Like every other state, we have our security challenges, but we don’t have political killings. We have cases of cult related violence, but the security agencies are tackling the issue frontally with the support of the Rivers State Government.”
He further alleged that the reports of insecurity and political killings during the rerun elections were “concocted by misguided politicians.”
The question I believe is did people die? Yes. Have their killers been brought to book? No.
Where lives are concerned the semantics becomes unimportant. Samuel Okonta’s –[the murdered youth corper]- families do not care if he died via political killings or social killings. All they care is that he died. Same goes with those massacred in the Ogoni communities and the random killings that occur on our streets per day. Last week it was the UNIPORT student Peter Ofurum; the week before, there was an assassination along Aba road. Call it what you like, the fact remains that political, educational, social, and emotional killings are occurring every day and saying that it isn’t does not refute the incontrovertible evidence.
34-year-old Lance Corporal Adegboyega Adebayo, one of the two soldiers killed in Abonnema, Akukutoru LGA two days before the Rivers State rerun election, was buried in Ogun State on Friday. He was survived by a wife and two children, one of which is a 2-month-old baby who will never know her father. They don’t care if the killings were politically motivated or otherwise.
The family of the deceased soldier also decried the lack of empathy from both the Rivers State and the federal governments, adding that neither had bothered to pay a condolence visit to the family.
When Governor Wike said that "We have a secure state where businesses are thriving. That is why our internally
Generated revenue is growing regularly," we wondered if he was referring to the thriving business of Armed Robbery within the state which we talked about here. On Monday, there was yet another armed robbery attempt in the daylight hours which resulted in one dead suspect and four recovered vehicles. Business is thriving indeed.
We may choose to politicize and socialize killings, but we cannot continue to disregard death. And people are are dying uneccessary deaths in Rivers state.
Some days ago whilst speaking to the Members of the House of Representatives Committee on the Army investigating the military invasion of Ogoni communities, Governor Wike stated unequivocally that there are no political killings in Rivers state.
According to him, "Like every other state, we have our security challenges, but we don’t have political killings. We have cases of cult related violence, but the security agencies are tackling the issue frontally with the support of the Rivers State Government.”
He further alleged that the reports of insecurity and political killings during the rerun elections were “concocted by misguided politicians.”
The question I believe is did people die? Yes. Have their killers been brought to book? No.
Where lives are concerned the semantics becomes unimportant. Samuel Okonta’s –[the murdered youth corper]- families do not care if he died via political killings or social killings. All they care is that he died. Same goes with those massacred in the Ogoni communities and the random killings that occur on our streets per day. Last week it was the UNIPORT student Peter Ofurum; the week before, there was an assassination along Aba road. Call it what you like, the fact remains that political, educational, social, and emotional killings are occurring every day and saying that it isn’t does not refute the incontrovertible evidence.
34-year-old Lance Corporal Adegboyega Adebayo, one of the two soldiers killed in Abonnema, Akukutoru LGA two days before the Rivers State rerun election, was buried in Ogun State on Friday. He was survived by a wife and two children, one of which is a 2-month-old baby who will never know her father. They don’t care if the killings were politically motivated or otherwise.
The family of the deceased soldier also decried the lack of empathy from both the Rivers State and the federal governments, adding that neither had bothered to pay a condolence visit to the family.
When Governor Wike said that "We have a secure state where businesses are thriving. That is why our internally
Generated revenue is growing regularly," we wondered if he was referring to the thriving business of Armed Robbery within the state which we talked about here. On Monday, there was yet another armed robbery attempt in the daylight hours which resulted in one dead suspect and four recovered vehicles. Business is thriving indeed.
We may choose to politicize and socialize killings, but we cannot continue to disregard death. And people are are dying uneccessary deaths in Rivers state.
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