GOVERNOR Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa, on Friday paid a condolence visit to the family of the late Reginald Dei, who was killed by soldiers during the February 23 presidential election at Oweikorogha, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state.
Governor Dickson who visited the family alongside other top officials of the government again, called on the Nigerian Army to fish out the soldiers, who killed Dei and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Seidougha Taribi.
A statement by his Special Adviser on Media Relations, Mr Fidelis Soriwei, quoted the governor as having said that Dei and the PDP Ward Chairman, Taribi, were gunned down in their hometown, Oweikorogha, without any provocation by soldiers.
Governor Dickson, who expressed sadness and pain over the incident assured the family that the state government would do everything within its reach to ensure that those who murdered the duo were brought to justice.
The governor also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop leaders of the All Progressives Congress in the state from using federal security agencies to harass, maim and kill innocent people under the guise of politics.
His words, “The Federal Government under the APC leadership of President Buhari has turned this state to a theatre of war in every election sea- son. We have managed to live with it since 2015.
Today, I am here to commiserate with the family of our late Government House photographer, a young promising man, who is one of the victims of the Federal Government-backed aggression and terrorism in the guise of politics.
“The Federal Government security forces are bent on allowing APC members to carry out all manner of criminal activities and go scotfree. Even when they kill people, they set them free. There are a number of them but the security forces don’t even arrest them. Rather they protect them.