Fubara vows to implement reports of Rivers post-election violence

Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has vowed to implement the suggestions of the seven-man judicial fee of enquiry which investigated the post-election violence within the state.

Governor Fubara had braved to conduct native elections within the oil-rich state regardless of the police refusing to offer safety for the train.

Mr Fubara’s social gathering, the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP), boycotted the election in solidarity with the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, who’s at loggerheads with Mr Fubara.

A faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) within the state led by Mr Wike loyalist Tony Okocha additionally boycotted the train.

However, the election went forward, and Mr Fubara’s loyalists, who contested on the platform of a comparatively unknown Motion Peoples Occasion, gained 22 of the 23 native council chairmanship seats whereas the Motion Alliance candidate, one other comparatively unknown social gathering, gained one.

On 6 October, a day after the election, Mr Fubara swore into workplace the elected chairpersons.

The next day, on 7 October, some hoodlums set ablaze the native authorities council secretariats in Emohua, Ikwerre, and Eleme, prompting the governor to arrange a panel to analyze the arsons.

No person is above the legislation – Fubara

Talking at Authorities Home on Tuesday whereas receiving the panel experiences, Mr Fubara vowed to implement the panel suggestions and emphasised that no one was above the legislation.

That is contained in a press release despatched to PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday by Mr Fubara’s spokesperson, Chukwudi Nelson.

“We aren’t going to be a part of any system that will encourage any destruction on this State. And for that motive, we needed to inaugurate this fee in order that this fee ought to look into the distant and fast causes of this downside.

“And I imagine that the suggestions of this fee, with the assistance of God and the assist of everybody, we are going to be sure that we implement the suggestions.

“We’re going to take it to the subsequent stage. The report will probably be offered to the Govt Council, and there, we are going to absolutely come out with the White Paper. And with the White Paper, I can guarantee you that we’re going to observe it to the top.

“No person is above the legislation, together with me. So, supplied what we’re doing is throughout the confines of the legislation, we are going to do it with the assistance of everybody,” Mr Fubara stated.

Mr Fubara stated he has by no means and can by no means be a celebration to violence within the state and vowed to make sure that he put a cease to “such unreasonable violence”

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He counseled the panel members for his or her boldness in carrying out the duty regardless of the bodily and authorized threats.

Talking earlier, the panel’s chairperson, Roseline Minakiri, stated that they had compiled their findings, together with the suggestions, into 4 volumes.

“We’ve got 4 volumes of the report right here. We’ve got the memoranda, which we acquired after we made our publications.

“We even have the reveals that got here with the memoranda. We’ve got the proceedings and the data. On the finish of the day, we got here up with the principle report.”

The panel chairperson suggested that the suggestions of the report must be studied and applied so that folks will be deterred from such callous acts.