Rivers’ll not participate in phony police probe – Wike

By Iyalla Adaye
Port Harcourt

Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has declared that the state government and people of the state will not be party to the Police phony probe panel, saying that the Police cannot deliberately murder his people in cold blood and turn around to investigate it.
He, further, declared that the phony probe on the rerun elections, has a predetermined  goal, which is to indict PDP members  and commence their  politically  motivated  prosecution.
He spoke at the victory thanksgiving mass of the PDP at Our Lady Chaplaincy of the Catholic Institute of West Africa for a successful rerun and supplementary elections.
He said: “We are not a party to their so-called panel.  We have passed that stage and we cannot fall into the trap of a panel of inquiry.
“After killing our people, you want us to assist you unravel what? It is the police that killed our people.”

The governor wondered why the police would claim it wants to investigate issues surrounding the Rivers rerun elections, when it was one of the interested  parties involved in the attempt  to  subvert the will of the people.
He pointed out that it was the Police high command that refused to prosecute the APC chieftains caught on camera printing fake result sheets ahead of the elections.
He added that petitions to the Police high command on the negative activities of ACP Steven Hasso and the Commander of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Mr. Akin Fakorede, were disregarded.
He noted that even when Fakorede  was videoed beating up electoral  officers at the Rivers East senatorial district collation centre, the police swept  it under the carpet.
“If it is a country that believes in its image, so many people would have lost their jobs. They cannot ask themselves  why 28,000 policemen, yet to be ascertained  number of soldiers, Police  dogs and  horses, gunboats and helicopters  could  not police  ordinary  legislative elections.

“It is because the police were the ones committing the fraud, violence and election materials snatching.  We are accusing the police of mass murder and they turn around to set up a panel of inquiry.
“After killing our people, you fraudulently set a panel of inquiry.  Up till now, they don’t know that we are far ahead. This panel is a mere booby trap to indict PDP Members.  If they cared about lives, they wouldn’t do what they did “.
The governor said that Rivers state survived the onslaught of the federal might because of God’s grace and intervention.
“We are here to thank God for the victory he has given Rivers State.  We came out from a battle and God was our leader during the fight. We owe God a lot”, he said.
In his sermon, Rev Mosgnr Pius Kii said the coalition of forces will never defeat Rivers state.