The Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has extended the existing curfew in the twenty-three council areas of the state from 7.00 pm to 6.00 am.
Gov Wike stated this during a state broadcast on Monday.
He said that the decision was informed because of last week's Friday, multiple armed ambush on police checkpoints along the East-West road which resulted in the cold-blooded murder of 7 police officers.
Gov Wike expressed the condolences of the state government to the families of the dead officers and the State’s Police Command for the irreparable loss and pray for the peaceful repose of their innocent souls.
“We have reviewed the way and manner the recent attacks were executed and discovered that the perpetrators, who disguised themselves as security officers, moved in unhindered from Oyigbo to launch the attack.
“The nation’s security agencies are on their trail and we are confident that they will all be arrested soon and brought to justice.
“We wish to assure every resident that we are not intimidated by the sporadic and cowardly attacks on predetermined security targets by faceless criminals on our soil; neither will we be cowed into succumbing to a baseless and doomed secessionists agenda.
“However, as a further step towards enhancing our collective safety we have reviewed the existing night time curfew across the 23 Local Government Areas, which will now start from 7 p.m. and end at 6 a.m. until further notice from tomorrow, 11th May 2021,” he said.
The Rivers state governor has through the broadcast directed security agencies to note the new curfew time, ensure strict compliance and effectively deal with any person or group that violates or attempts to violate it.
Gov Wike stated that the government has reviewed and for the moment, declined the pressure on the state government to activate the youths to defend the state from the terrorists because his administration will not want to complicate the very delicate security situation by creating opportunities for some other monsters to emerge.
“We are however determined to deploy everything at our disposal to advance the safety and security of lives and property in our State and nothing will stop us from defeating the evil forces presently threatening our individual and collective security. We continue to appeal to members of the public to understand with us in the midst of the economic troubles that our actions may inflict as our one and only aim is to achieve and sustain the maximum security of lives and property in our dear state.” Gov Wike assured.
He appealed to the public to understand that security is everybody’s business and play their own roles, especially in passing intelligence information to the law enforcement agencies to process and take pre-emptive measures to counter and advance our collective security.
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