The All Progressives Congress’ gubernatorial candidate in Rivers State during the 2015 elections, Peterside Dakuku, has blamed the government of Governor Nyesom Wike for the recent escalation of violence in the state accusing it of arming militants and cult gangs, and a lack of commitment to peace and other in the state.
There has been an upsurge of violent clashes between cult gangs, militant groups and armed robbery attacks in the state in recent weeks.
No fewer than 20 people were killed in February alone in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area when cult groups suspected to enjoy the support of politicians invaded several communities in the area. Many of the bodies were decapitated. Others were left with machete and gunshot wounds.
Though Mr. Dakuku acknowledge that some of the clashes are as a result of the perennial mistrust of government and oil exploration companies by host communities, he however, stated that most of the recent clashes were politically motivated; and he places the blame on the doorstep of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state.
In a statement on Sunday, he accused the Wike-led administration of arming the cult groups responsible for the violence in the run up to the 2015 election in its question to violently secure power.
He stated that groups have now become “Frankenstein monsters” the government can no longer control.
“It is regrettable but true that in many communities in Rivers State today cult gangs hold sway. They control the social and economic souls of the people, including traditional structures which have been rendered impotent,” he said.
“The cult gangs were armed by politicians in the build up to 2015 general elections. Like Frankenstein monsters, they are now too powerful to those who armed them and had enjoyed pyrrhic benefits from their activities.
“The situation has so degenerated that nobody, including those who created the monsters, feels safe anymore. The physical landscape of Rivers State communities is painted with boys armed to the teeth and walking about freely to the discomfort of citizens.”
He accused the government of showing no commitment to restoring peace and order to the state. According to him the government, instead of exploring tactful resolution to the insecurity problem has adopted an unhelpful confrontational approach to solving the problem.
“We are yet to feel the effect of any concrete action taken by Nyesom Wike- led Rivers State Government to stem this worsening insecurity. A town hall meeting which he held in Omoku on the urging of Rt. Hon. Andrew Uchendu degenerated into a display of power by way of suspending three Local Government Caretaker Committee chairmen and a strange order to security agents to kill suspected cultists,” Mr Dakuku said.
“The aloofness of the state government has actively promoted the view in the public space that it is behind the prevailing insecurity and free reign of criminals in the state. Nothing challenges a government more than to lose the moral right to fight criminality. When a government persistently fails in its primary duty of securing lives and property, and does not show that it is committed to fighting against those who threaten our peace, the despair of the citizenry can best be imagined.
“Today the people of Rivers state are groaning under the unbearable weight of kidnapping, assassinations, armed robbery, political violence, gun running, harassment, and all forms of criminality. The general question is how long are we going to live like this?”
Mr Dakuku said he feared that insecurity in the state may worsen as the March 19 legislative re-run draws close.
Already the APC candidate in the Rivers State South East Senatorial District re-run election, Magnus Abe, has accused Mr. Wike of planning to assassinate him. The Vanguard newspaper is reporting that Mr Abe said on a Silverbird Rhythm fm 93.7 on Saturday that there had been a meeting of militants in Ogoni on the behest of Mr. Wike to kill him.

There is an evil in Rivers State and I have chosen to speak against it. If anything happens to me, Nigerians, Rivers, Ogoni people and my family should hold Governor Nyesom Wike and his PDP people responsible because the threat against my life is too much”, he reportedly said during the programme.


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These politicians should go and sit down.

Dakaku should stop the wailing blame games

WIKE is a thug.
*quote me anywhere*

Is it peterside or petersburg

While he could be saying the truth, I still want to believed that he is still pained and can't stop feeling like an orphan.

True!!

Wike has brought back the jobless touts. The only thing they do is go oil companies and demand for money they didn't work for. Amaechi stopped all that, but now they're back again.

Political

I guess the unreadiness of Buhari 2 give DAP a consolation appointment is making him very uneasy. The current violence in Rivers shld b blamed on politicians of BOTH d PDP & APC. And not on Gov. Wike alone.
While the PDP orchestrates violence as humans, the APC does same as Vampires with higher frequency and intensity.

No b una fault. Na the faults of these brainless youth dat accept guns from u & not use it on u and ur children.

is dakuku now a wailer?

Amberon:
True!!

Wike has brought back the jobless touts. The only thing they do is go oil companies and demand for money they didn't work for. Amaechi stopped all that, but now they're back again.

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