Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, on Wednesday warned miscreants against using the state as a launching pad for militancy and other criminal activities.
Dickson, who condemned Monday’s brutal killing of three soldiers in Nembe local government area of the state, asked militants to leave Bayelsa alone. He said his administration would work with security operatives to smoke out the killers of the three soldiers from their hideout and bring them to justice.
A statement signed by Dickson’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson-Markson, said the governor spoke in a live radio interview in Yenagoa, the state capital.
He said:
The government will not condone a situation whereby the state would be used as a launching pad for violence and criminal activities. I would like to use this opportunity to offer my condolences to the military commanders, colleagues and families of the soldiers who were murdered in cold blood in Nembe. I would be summoning the traditional rulers in the area and the chairman of the council and after that I hope to have a critical meeting with other players in that area to discuss the security developments. We condemn it in its totality and especially looking at it from the point of view that last year in the same location this kind of thing took place. We are very concerned about that. Our duty is to work with the security forces to ensure that the perpetrators are followed up and hunted down. They must face justice, and maybe from this incident we might also get a clue as to what happened last year and some other incidents of security breaches.