The investigation into the killings is expected to last for 30 days, according to Amaechi.
Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi,
has inaugurated a nine-man commission of inquiry to investigate the
recent killings which took place in the state during the recently
concluded general elections.
The investigation into the killings is expected to last for 30 days, according to Amaechi.
The
governor revealed this on Thursday, April 16, 2015, while inaugurating
the commission at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the state
capital.
“When I visited Obirikom in the
Ogba/Egbeme/Ndoni Local Government Area, in the household of the late
Chief Christopher Adube, nine persons were killed by assassins,” Amaechi said.
“There
was a day I was arguing with the Commissioner of Police in Rivers State
who is now in Enugu and I said, ‘commissioner, I was told 11 persons
have been killed’, he said, ‘no, only seven persons,” he added.
“Again,
in the same Omoku, whether it is seven or 11 persons, these are human
lives. At Okrika, when APC went on campaign, where the governorship
candidate was seated, he would have been hit by a bullet, but God saved
him; he had left that place earlier. That was the first day the APC went
for campaigns in Okirika, and the police were present,” the governor said.
The panel will be headed by the Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu.
Other members are Sir Samuel Egbe, Professor Nlerum Okogbule, Professor Owunari Georgewill, Dr Richard Ofuru, Mrs. Asivosuo Oriye, Dr Joy Ejiofor, Mrs Ayo Obe, and Rev. Father Michael Akiri.
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