Bayelsa State Government, yesterday, insisted that perpetrators of last month’s attack on Opu-Nembe in Nembe Council of the state, which left four persons dead, must face the law.
The state Deputy Governor, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, made the declaration during a meeting with members of Opu-Nembe Council of Chiefs, and security service commanders in Government House, Yenagoa.
He said government was ready to work closely with security agencies in the state to ensure that those behind the February 15 attack were identified, apprehended and prosecuted, no matter how highly placed they are in society.
He said: “This meeting is a response to the ugly incident in Opu-Nembe a couple of weeks ago. There are still a lot of speculations and allegations we have to address.
“As a government, we don’t condone crime and criminality. Whoever that is involved in this dastardly act of killing people for whatever reasons must face the full weight of the law.”
In his remarks, the spokesman for Opu-Nembe chiefs, Chief Robert Efere, thanked the state government for responding swiftly to the February 15 incident that led to loss of lives and property.
The President of the Opu-Nembe Youth Body, represented by his deputy, Mr. Degi Nimibofa, described the attack as a premeditated and coordinated effort by some indigenes to seize the political and economic power structure of the community.
The state Commissioner of Police, Ben Okolo, commiserated with the community, particularly families that lost their members to the attack and urged them to release the corpses to the police.
