By Donald Iorchir
Abuja
National Support Groups for Good Governance (NSGGG), has urged security agencies in the country to intensify efforts in bringing those behind the killings in Rivers at the just concluded re-run election to book.
Coordinator of the group, Comrade Abdulwahab Ekekhide, made the appeal when he led a coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on the protest to Force Headquarters yesterday in Abuja.
He condemned the recent killings in River state, which he involved late DSP Alkali Mohammed and some innocent people, including adoption of INEC officials.
Ekekhide urged the Nigerian Police to ensure that those who take the laws of the land into their hands should not be allowed to go free.
It could be recalled that the recent political killings in Rivers State was at the instance of a re-run elections into the state and federal house of representatives which was conducted by the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC,.
“It is painful to lose innocent ones who were on a national assignment to Rivers state for protection of lives and property. We are appealing to both police and other security agents to ensure that anybody who masterminded the incidence face full wrath of the law”.
Receiving the protesters at the Force Headquarters, the Inspector General of Police, Idris Mohammed, who was represented by the Assistant Inspector General of Police in -charge of operations, AIG, Alkali Baba-Usman, assured them of the police commitment to ensuring that those involved were brought to book.
Baba-Usman said investigations into the barbaric acts had since commenced.