By Mike Odiegwu, Port Harcourt
Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has completed the rebuilding of the Kpopie police station at Gokana Local Government Area destroyed by the late notorious criminal, Bobosky and his gang.
Bobosky, who died hours after his arrest in September 2020 and his gang, were said to have dismantled the roof of the police station, vandalising the structures and carting away valuables during the attack.
But Wike handed over a fully furnished Kpopie police station consisting of an administrative building and nine units of living quarters for police officers to the State Commissioner of Police at the weekend.
The Secretary to the Rivers State Government (SSG), Dr. Tammy Wenike Danagogo, who represented the Governor reiterated Wike’s resolve to protect the lives and property of the Rivers people.
The SSG said the Governor had intensified efforts to ensure peace and security through deliberate project delivery and manpower development.
Danagogo said: “The peace and security of the state is paramount.” Adding that, Without peace, there can be no development in communities.
“As we look to government to provide development, there must be enabling environment to deliver on their promises, which is your corporation.
“As the Chief Security Officer of the State, the Governor has asked me to hand-over this facility to the Nigeria Police to ensure that the police live up to their expectation of protecting lives and properties of all persons.
“I urge the police personnel here to take care of these facilities and match the Governor’s expectation for safety. When you do your work right and fight insecurity, you do it for humanity and to God, he said.
He thanked the Dekor and Deyor communities for donating the land for the project.
He said: “We appreciate members of the Dekor and Deyor communities of Gokana for providing the land for the construction of the station. It does not stop here, continue to corporate with Government and the police to ensure complete security in this area. If you vandalize this facility, you shot yourselves on the feet.
“I also urge the youths to corporate with the security, desist from vandalism and other vices that may compromise the security of this area”.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mukan, thanked Wike for always fulfilling his promises and ensuring the development of the state.
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He said: “We assure you that, by providing comfort for our men, the men deployed to this area will provide their service to the best of their abilities with visible results for all to see. People will sleep with their eyes closed since the police is working with modern surveillance and logistics facility for the entire state”.
He also promised to deploy members of the trained community police personnel from the Gokana environment to the community.
Rivers House of Assemblymember representing Gokana Constituency, Dumle Maol, thanked the Governor for the station which he remarked was the first of its kind in the state.
He added that the station and other projects served as evidence of the governor’s widespread projects in all parts of the state.
The contractor, who was represented by the Project Engineer, said that the station housed an administrative block of offices, a conference hall, and a cell, a four-bedroom apartment for the DPO, and eight blocks of two-bedroom apartments for other officers fully-equipped with the state-of-art facilities.
The LGA Chairman, Paul Kobani, thanked the governor for ensuring peace and development of the Ogoni people with another laudable project.
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