All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Rivers Southeast in the March 19 inconclusive legislative rerun, Senator Magnus Abe, has urged Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris to thoroughly investigate circumstances surrounding the killing of a Port Harcourt lawyer, Ken Atsuwete.
In a statement yesterday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, by his spokesperson Parry Benson, the politician noted that Atsuwete was the counsel to a former Chairman of Asari-Toru Local Government Area, Ojukaye Flag-Amachree, a chieftain of the APC.
The senator said a full and unbiased investigation would reveal those behind the killing.
Abe, a former secretary to the state government, said: “Life in Rivers State has returned to a state of nature. It is now brutish and short. Those who today glorify evil are merely, as they say, holding the tiger by its tail; they will definitely end up in the belly of the tiger.
“Let me remind all Rivers people that kidnapping in the state started as a problem for expatriates. But it is now a problem for all Rivers indigenes as well as those who live and do business in the state.
“What may look like a problem for the APC today will soon end up at the doorstep of every Rivers resident, if we do not come together, stand together and say to all evil doers and their sponsors that enough is enough; the evil will continue.
“I wish Atsuwete had tight security, for PDP to issue a statement against his security. If he did, perhaps he would still be with us today. Almighty God, I accuse no one, but all that is hidden, You will bring to light in the fullness of time. Divine retribution will be swift, just and commensurate to the suffering of our widows and the wailing of our fatherless children. May his gentle soul rest in peace.”
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) in the Seventh National Assembly (Abe) also said any attempt to silence the voice of opposition, including rights activists in the state against injustices through assassination, would be an effort in futility.