STATE BROADCAST BY HIS EXCELLENCY NYESOM EZENWO WIKE, CON, GSSRS, POS ON THE RECENT SECURITY BREACHES IN RIVERS STATE
My dear people of Rivers State
These are extraordinary times for our country and our State. Last week Friday, we witnessed yet another multiple armed ambush on police checkpoints along the East-West road which resulted in the cold-blooded murder of 7 police officers.
2. We again express our condolence to the families of the dead officers and the State’s Police Command for this irreparable loss and pray for the peaceful repose of their innocent souls.
3. We have reviewed the way and manner the recent attacks were executed and discovered that the perpetrators, who disguised themselves as security officers, moved in unhindered from Oyigbo to launch the attack.
4. The nation’s security agencies are on their trail and we are confident that they will all be arrested soon and brought to justice.
5. We wish to assure every resident that we are not intimidated by the sporadic and cowardly attacks on predetermined security targets by faceless criminals on our soil; neither will we be cowed into succumbing to a baseless and doomed secessionists agenda.
7. However, as a further step towards enhancing our collective safety we have reviewed the existing night time curfew across the 23 Local Government Areas, which will now start from 7 p.m. and end at 6 a.m. until further notice from tomorrow 11th May 2021.
8. The security agencies are hereby directed to note the new curfew time, ensure strict compliance and effectively deal with any person or group that violates or attempts to violate it.
9. We have reviewed, and for the moment, declined the pressure on the State Government to activate our youth to defend the State from these terrorists because we don’t want to complicate our very delicate security situation by creating opportunities for some other monsters to emerge.
10. However, we are determined to deploy everything at our disposal to advance the safety and security of lives and property in our State and nothing will stop us from defeating the evil forces presently threatening our individual and collective security.
11. We continue to appeal to members of the public to understand with us in the midst of the economic troubles that our actions may inflict as our one and only aim is to achieve and sustain the maximum security of lives and property in our dear State.
12. We further appeal to the public to understand that security is everybody’s business and play their own roles, especially in passing intelligence information to the law enforcement agencies to process and take pre-emptive measures to counter and advance our collective security.
13. Once again, thank you for your cooperation as we continue to work with the nation’s security agencies to keep us safe and secure.
14. Thank you and may God bless Rivers State.

Is 7 not too early?

Don't they get stuck in traffic?

Their governor and over doing things

Policemen there will build duplexes and buy Benz from the proceeds of defaulting.

Their break through is here.

Na so.

Na wa o!

And he had to draw people's attention towards Obigbo?

This man will be dealt with in no time, he has bitten more than he can chew.

This wike don use style dey fear .

They can't build duplex......they are also afraid of their lives ........they are very careful on how dey collect money from people now

doggedfighter:
Is 7 not too early?

Don't they get stuck in traffic?

Their governor and over doing things

Policemen there will build duplexes and buy Benz from the proceeds of defaulting.

Their break through is here.

He is still issuing threats instead of calling for dialogue and restraint on all sides.
Soon the curfew will become 24hrs.
No moving out of your house,even if one starves to death.
If u are making a curfew 7pm-6am with everywhere being blocked,how do workers reach their offices to resume by 8am if they have to leave their houses by 6am;and how do they reach home by 7pm if they close from office 5 or 6pm the earliest?

Bigflamie:
And he had to draw people's attention towards Obigbo?

This man will be dealt with in no time, he has bitten more than he can chew.

It's his go to excuse.
At least he is indirectly acknowledging something has broken in Obigbo for him and the state.

seborrhic:

It's his go to excuse.
At least he is indirectly acknowledging something has broken in Obigbo for him and the state.

I think Wike's arrogance is part of what is fuelling this crisis. How can you be hating on an ethnic group that makes up part of your state. Even more than some minorities. If you check list of tribes on Rivers State government page, you wouldn't even see Igbo. That says a lot. You can't keep crushing a group simply because you don't like them, you won't go far with that.