We will not rest until we fish out killers of police officer, Rivers Governor vows

The governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, has pledged that the killers of state Divisional Police Officer, Bako Amgbashim, shall be apprehended, dead or alive.

This was said on Sunday by Governor Fubara shortly after the emergency State Security Council meeting was held at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the state capital of Rivers.

“We will not rest until whoever is responsible for this act is brought to book. We have shown our commitment in this particular issue by placing a bounty on the criminal and also suspending the traditional ruler in that locality.

“We are doing everything on our part to make sure that we look at this matter and get to the end of it. We must get him dead or alive because we have to make a statement. Rivers State has never and will never be a home to criminality.”

The governor expressed faith in the state’s security authorities’ capacity to identify the source of the crime and apprehend all connected criminals.

As he led a security team in an operation in the hamlet of Odiemudie in the Ahoada East Local Government Area on Friday night, Amgbashim, a Superintendent of Police known for his gallantry, was brutally murdered by suspected cultists.