Olusegun Samuel in Yenagoa
Bayelsa State Authorities has restated its dedication to peace and safety as a primary order precedence, assuring the people who no neighborhood will exist as an ungoverned house within the state.
The state Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, gave the reassurance yesterday throughout a gathering with the management of Tarakiri Kingdom, Egbemo-Angalabiri Neighborhood and heads of safety companies at his workplace within the Authorities Home, Yenagoa.
An announcement issued by his media aide, Mr. Doubara Atasi, quoted the deputy governor as saying that the federal government would proceed to work intently with safety companies in any respect ranges to offer top-notch safety to engender peace and socioeconomic improvement within the state.
To this finish, Senator Ewhrudjakpo assured them that the safety structure can be additional strengthened to make it unattainable for non-state actors to overrun and supplant duly constituted authority in any Bayelsa State neighborhood.
Addressing the Egbemo-Angalabiri disaster, the deputy governor lamented that as a Tarakiri son, he was ashamed that the neighborhood has been within the information for the mistaken causes for fairly a while now.
He famous that Egbemo-Angalabiri is just not the one oil-bearing neighborhood within the state, and subsequently, questioned why its indigenes had been all the time embroiled in crises resulting in the lack of lives and beneficial property.
Whereas promising that the federal government would wade into the present disaster that led to the killing of 1 Mr. Funkeye Fortunate, Ewhrudjakpo conveyed the condolences of the state authorities to the bereaved household.
He equally charged the Chairman of Ekeremor Native Authorities Council, Belemu Nemine; the Tarakiri Council of Chiefs and outstanding folks of the neighborhood, together with the Deputy Speaker of the state Home Meeting, Hon Michael Ogbere, to additionally make efforts in the direction of resolving the issue.
He stated: “The safety companies will examine notes and verify what’s on floor at Egbemo-Angalabiri. We have now our personal technique of getting justice throughout to those that deserve justice.
“I prefer to as soon as once more enchantment to each aggrieved individual, notably the bereaved household to not take the legal guidelines into your arms as a result of no two wrongs can ever make a proper. We have now all the time emphasised that at any time when such issues occur, there’s regulation enforcement.
“The arm of the regulation seems to be quick however as soon as it catches up with you, you can’t lose your self from its clutches. We’ll do every thing to keep up our powers as a authorities.
“We won’t enable any neighborhood to be overrun by non-state actors to develop into an ungoverned house. We’re going to push far on this regard as a result of our leniency is being wrongly interpreted as incapacity and weak spot.”
In his contribution, the Pere of Tarakiri, His Majesty King Seiyifa Koroye, famous that his investigations revealed that the present disaster in Egbemo-Angalabiri won’t be unconnected to the present rivalry between two workers of a non-public oil facility safety firm who’re locked in supremacy battle locally.
Additionally talking, representatives of the bereaved household, Chief Dickson Okpokunou and Mr. Dennis Wilson, stated their son, Mr. Funkeye Fortunate, allegedly killed by operatives of a non-public safety firm on March 1 had by no means engaged in any oil bunkering actions in his lifetime.
They referred to as on the state authorities to prevail on the killers of Fortunate to make his corpse obtainable to the household for correct burial.
