Wike directs safety businesses to clampdown on cultists

The Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has directed the safety businesses to raid any suspected space or premises and clamp down on cultists, militant assist teams and different miscreants being utilized by politicians to disturb the peace, security and safety of the state.

He urged anybody with helpful details about the camps, gatherings, plans and actions of criminals and their sponsors to ahead it to the safety businesses for motion.

The governor gave the directive in a state broadcast in Port Harcourt on Monday following what he described because the rising circumstances of cultism and associated actions throughout the state.

“We additionally denounce the rising circumstances of cultism within the state throughout this electioneering interval, that are sponsored by politicians to settle political scores.

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“Aside from committing heinous crimes, cultists masking as get together assist teams and thugs are utilized by rival get together leaders to assault opponents and disrupt get together conferences, particularly in these political events with protracted inner crises arising from their flawed primaries.

“We’re additionally conscious that determined politicians are recruiting and arming cultists and different miscreants for use to assault and intimidate voters through the polls.

He added, “Consequently, I’ve directed the safety businesses to raid any suspected space or premises and clamp down on cultists, militant assist teams and different miscreants being utilized by politicians to disturb the peace, security and safety of the state.”

The governor reiterated that no quantity of syndicated misinformation, campaigns of calumny, and diatribes by a bit of the media and the political elites would deter the state authorities from implementing the legal guidelines of the state in opposition to those that vainly declare to be above them.

He known as on leaders of political events to obey the legal guidelines regulating election campaigns to instil sanity and safeguard the general public curiosity.

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