Politicians killing people for elections – Dickson

Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson says there are politicians in his state who are killing people during elections.

The governor described those politicians as “complete criminals and terrorists.”

He spoke in Yenagoa while receiving the state’s Commandant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Mrs. Christiana Omanu Abiakam.

Dickson asked security agencies in the state to resist being used as political tools.

The governor also asked them not to politicize security in order not to undermine the peace in the state.

He said: “There are politicians in this state in some political parties who are complete criminals and terrorists killing people elections after elections. They are involved in all major communal problems. They use most of your officers and men. As we speak, your men are guarding people of shady characters, parading as political leaders, including people against whom judicial process has commenced.

“So, my charge to you is that, while this government will continue to support law enforcement agencies to do their jobs better, the government and people will no longer condone a situation, whereby uniform men are used to intimidate, kill and maim people in this state.”

Dickson, who assured the NSCDC of the government’s readiness to provide a security platform on the waterways, said he had directed the Ministry of Lands and Survey to provide land for the building of an official accommodation for the new commandant.

Earlier, Abiakam pledged to work closely with other security agencies to check pipeline vandalism and protect government’s assets.