Rivers Killing: Women group urge FG to question Wike
Thu Mar 31, 2016 01:39:pm National
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Women Arise for Justice yesterday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to question the Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, over the high rate of death recorded at the just concluded re run election that took place in the state.
The women who stormed the Presidential Villa in Abuja during a peaceful protest said all the deaths, abductions, intimidation and destruction of property were the product of the do or die politics that featured during the last Rivers State re-run election.
The National President of the group, Jummai Samuel Pukat, who led the protest said the governor should be held responsible for all the atrocities since his body language and utterance directly constitute instruction to his political killers to deal with those not on the same page with him.
According to her, "It was Governor Wike who threatened that there are areas that people from the federal level cannot access in the state. It was him who said anyone coming from outsider Rivers for the re-run must first write their will.
The group leader said, "Our sons, brothers, husbands and fathers cannot be continually cut down in their prime with the federal government remaining indifferent simply because their murder took place in Wikes Rivers state. "We cannot wait until more governors join in this killing spree.
We dare not contemplate what will happen if Wike's approach to treating human life becomes the new normal. As mothers, we no longer have the ability to sleep at night when our loved ones have to undertake even the most basic assignment in Rivers state," she said.
The group also want the federal government to probe the abduction and the eventual killing of Colonel, Samaila Inusa in Kaduna on Tuesday.
Pukat also stated that, history will not be kind to them if the memory of the dead is so desecrated with lies, adding, "our hearts bleed Mr. President. We are worried and confused and we ask if Rivers state is still part of the Federal Republic of Nigeria."
The women who stormed the Presidential Villa in Abuja during a peaceful protest said all the deaths, abductions, intimidation and destruction of property were the product of the do or die politics that featured during the last Rivers State re-run election.
The National President of the group, Jummai Samuel Pukat, who led the protest said the governor should be held responsible for all the atrocities since his body language and utterance directly constitute instruction to his political killers to deal with those not on the same page with him.
According to her, "It was Governor Wike who threatened that there are areas that people from the federal level cannot access in the state. It was him who said anyone coming from outsider Rivers for the re-run must first write their will.
The group leader said, "Our sons, brothers, husbands and fathers cannot be continually cut down in their prime with the federal government remaining indifferent simply because their murder took place in Wikes Rivers state. "We cannot wait until more governors join in this killing spree.
We dare not contemplate what will happen if Wike's approach to treating human life becomes the new normal. As mothers, we no longer have the ability to sleep at night when our loved ones have to undertake even the most basic assignment in Rivers state," she said.
The group also want the federal government to probe the abduction and the eventual killing of Colonel, Samaila Inusa in Kaduna on Tuesday.
Pukat also stated that, history will not be kind to them if the memory of the dead is so desecrated with lies, adding, "our hearts bleed Mr. President. We are worried and confused and we ask if Rivers state is still part of the Federal Republic of Nigeria."
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