The Police in Akwa Ibom State have confirmed the killing of Bassey Emah, a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party in the state.
“We received report that gunmen killed Emah,’’ SP Odiko Macdon, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, told the News Agency of Nigeria, on Thursday, in Uyo.
Emah was said to have been shot dead on Sunday.
The police spokesman said that investigation into the killing had begun, giving the assurance that the perpetrators would be fished out and made to face justice.
“Investigation is ongoing; in no distance time, I believe that the perpetrators will be brought to book,’’ Macdon said.
Reacting, Senator Bassey Akpan (Akwa Ibom North East), in a statement, urged the security agencies to arrest the perpetrators.
Akpan, who is the Chairman of Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources Upstream, described the killing of Emah as “one killing too many.
“Without leaning on any conspiracy theory, I hereby charge the security agencies to, as a matter of urgency, do all within their powers to unravel the circumstances surrounding the needless killing,’’ he said.
The senator regretted that the killing of Emah would deprive his family of sustainable means of livelihood.
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