The controversy over the beheading of two policemen during last month’s
Rivers State rerun polls deepened yesterday, with Governor Nyesom Wike faulting
the position of
Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris and the Army.
Wike challenged the Police to state how and where Deputy Superintendent
of Police Mohammed Alkali and his driver Sergeant Peter Uchi were murdered
during the December 10, 2016 poll.
He accused the police of trying to cover up information about the
incident...
According to him, the police have refused to make public the
communication that an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain and former
Commissioner for Power Mr Augustine Kachi Nwokocha allegedly had with the
suspected killers before the DSP was murdered.
Wike spoke yesterday during a meeting with the management of Independent
Newspapers Limited at the Government House in Port Harcourt.
He said: “The Police should let the world know where the DSP was killed.
“What is the polling unit where he was killed? The former commissioner of
Power who was mentioned by the killers, has he been questioned?
“Where is the call log of that former commissioner as communicated with
the killers?
“Have they checked the discussions between the Commissioner and the
arrested killers?”
He added: “They know the truth, but they want to cover a lot of things.
The army announced that they recovered the uniforms from the forest, was there
a polling unit in the forest?”
He also alleged that the state government was being blackmailed..
The IG had said: “We lost two of our officers on the day of the election.
They were kidnapped, their heads were severed from their bodies and their
bodies were buried in shallow graves. The vehicle in which they were kidnapped
has been recovered.
“We have recovered their bodies but unfortunately, the information we got
from suspects arrested revealed that after severing their heads from their
body, their heads were thrown into the River.
”So far, we have arrested four suspects and we have recovered some
weapons. Investigation is however ongoing because we are expanding the scope of
investigation.
“I want to assure this country that we will leave no stone unturned to
ensure that those found indicted in this investigation, no matter their status,
are going to be held responsible for it.
“These people were killed not because of any personal issue but because
they answered the call of duty to serve in the election that took place in
Rivers and it is very sad that their lives have to end like this
”The situation in Rivers is an indication that leaders and politicians
have a lot to contribute to the smoothness of an election and when you have
people in leadership who do not take the responsibility of being a leader, this
is what happens and they are issues that constitute threat to ordinary
Nigerians.”
He declared that the electoral violence witnessed in Rivers state would
be the last to be witnessed in any part of the country.
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