Politics
I’ll Sign Death Warrant Of Convicted Cultists Without Looking Back – Wike
Rivers State Governor, Nysom Ezenwo Wike on Thursday vowed to sign the death warrant of cultists convicted to have killed people during their operation without hesitation or looking back.
Wike spoke after signing three bills into law at the State House, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The bills are the controversial Rivers State Neighbourhood Watch Safety Corps Law No.8 of 2018; the Rivers State Secret Cult and Similar Activities (Prohibition) (Amendment) Law No.6 of 2018 and the Rivers State Kidnap (Prohibition) (Amendment) No.2 Law No.7 of 2018.
Wike said that the laws were necessary to enhance security across the state.
On the Anti-kidnapping and Anti-Cultism Laws, Wike said that stiffer penalties had been approved to discourage those who might want to be involved in the offences.
“If you are a cultist and you are caught, it is life imprisonment. If you are a cultist and you kill during cult activities, you will face the death penalty. If you are convicted of kidnapping and the Supreme Court affirms your conviction, I will sign the death warrant without looking back, ” he said.
The governor said that the State Government would battle cultism and kidnapping to a standstill.
He also said that the Neighbourhood Watch Safety Corps would support existing security agencies with intelligence and information for them to effectively fight crime and make the state safer.
The governor stated that the Neighbourhood Watch Safety Corps could not work without the approval of security agencies who would profile all the operatives.
He said anybody who loved Rivers State would not do anything to undermine steps that would enhance the security of lives in the state.
He said: “If your hands are clean, you have nothing to fear about the three laws that I have given assent to. By tomorrow, I will appoint the person that will head the Neighbourhood Watch Safety Corps.
“All criminals will face the full weight of the law. We will fight crime and ensure that the State is safe for investors “.
He debunked claims by opposition elements that the state government planned to use the Neighbourhood Watch to arm youths, saying that the corps was a replica of what was already in existence in Lagos State.
Senator, Representing Rivers West Senatorial District, Osinakachukwu Ideozu said that the laws assented by the Rivers State Governor would strengthen security operations in the state.
Ideozu described as unfortunate the failed attempt by Senator Magnus Abe to mislead the Senate on the Neighbourhood Watch, saying that it is within the purview of the Rivers State House of Assembly to pass the State Neighbourhood Watch Safety Corps Law for the security of the state.
In a swift reaction, Dr Dakuku Peterside, former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has vowed he would join people of goodwill to challenge the controversial Neighbourhood Watch Bill signed into law by Wike.
Peterside said such powers in the hands of Wike would only cause more harm than good, especially in a state where several people were still wailing and mourning following the killings that trailed the 2015 general elections and subsequent re-run elections.
According to him, “Governor Wike has claimed on several occasions that the state is safe, it is therefore surprising that the same governor is now setting up a private militia as an alternative to law enforcement agencies.
“It is obvious to the least discerning person that his contraption is to arm his private militia. This is an attempt to use a legal platform to illegally arm his militia. The fear of everybody in the state is the antecedent of the governor, who has been accused of associating with touts and criminals and it is not surprising that some of them have been given appointments by the same Wike.”
Anonymous
March 16, 2018 at 7:47 am
Buhari has not told Nigerians and the world who ordered the withdrawal of soldiers from Dapchi school before boko haram kidnapped the school girls and he’s now moving to negotiate with boko haram.. Buhari is now doing business with terrorist.
Have you seen the video of a jet fighter of the Nigerian Air Force giving aerial bombardment support to the Islamic Fulani Herdsmen Terrorists attacking a village in Adamawa State, just few days ago? …more than 30 villagers were burnt to death.
Do you know that the Nigerian Army raided a shrine in Benue State and arrested a Chief Priest for administering invincibility charms on vigilante youths to protect the community against the Islamic Fulani Herdsmen Terrorists?
Keep speaking grammar on political correctness.
You watch # BBNaija and CNN, you start forming liberalism and call truth “bigotry”
If the Army can gather intelligence to stop a planned attack by Benue youths, what stopped the Army from stopping the Islamic Fulani Herdsmen terrorists attacks that lasted several hours and was recurrent within days intervals?
Nigeria is in Africa, our practical reality is different from that of UK and USA.
General Buhari, an ex military dictator and a coupist is the President of Nigeria.
General Buhari is a Fulani, and own cattle in their hundreds
General Buhari is a reserved Islamists, and has spoken in defense of Sharia in the past.
General Buhari has personally defended the Fulani herdsmen in the recent past.
Please, take Emmanuel Macron, Xi Jiping, Angela Merkel, Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau …show me the remotest similarities to General Buhari.
You’re talking about Physicists, Scientists and Harvard graduate, then , after you watch Hollywood movies you’re applying their psyche in Nigeria under General Buhari.
Do you even know that in November last year, the Islamic Fulani herdsmen terrorist shot at a NAF jet fighter in Numan communities of Adamawa State, but the fighter jet could not return fire because General Buhari gave instructions to them, not to use force on Fulani?
…this was after more than 100 persons were slaughtered by the Islamic Fulani Herdsmen Terrorists in Demsa and Numan communities of Adamawa.
It’s even funnier that DSS and NIA has come to say that they are rather Islamic State of West Africa (a branch of ISIS) not the Islamic Fulani Herdsmen Terrorists
Now, ask your skull… Why is Army arresting Nigerian youths in Benue State for trying to defend themselves against foreign Islamic terrorists, but is yet to arrest these Islamists?. .President Buhari has legalised and institutionalised bloodshed in Nigeria. he has licensed his Co Fulani animals to terrorise and kill anyone who oppose their satanic cattle colony . a fool that creates no jobs and provides no infrastructure but goes about sharing hunger and death to the people he is supposed to be leading. an animal whose govt is built on lies, blackmail and intimidation .