Embrace amnesty now or regret later, wike tells cultists

Daniel Abia

P/Harcourt – Cultists in Rivers State have been enjoined to embrace the window of peace available to them through a government amnesty programme or leave the state.

Deputy Governor (Mrs) Ipalibo Harry Banigo enjoined criminals and cultists to take advantage of Governor Nyesom Wike’s offer of pardon to renounce crime and turn a new leaf to avoid the escape the consequences of their past misdeeds.

Banigo announced this in Port Harcourt Thursday in a statement issued by Paul Damgbor, her Press Secretary, noting that the recent demolition of the home and hideout of a notorious cultist and

kidnapper who has been terrorising the state shows the resolve the Wike administration to invoke the relevant laws against criminal elements in Rivers.

The Deputy Governor stated that government was determined to ensure that criminal elements are

rooted out of the state to restore sanity, peace and security, which are essential to economic prosperity.

Banigo stressed that the state government has put in place necessary logistics to combat crime in partnership with security agencies, to attract Investors to the state and ensure the safety of the lives and property of business operators and ordinary residents alike.

Source: Independent newspapers.