Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara Tuesday set up a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate the arson, killings, and destruction of government property at various local government council secretariats in the state on Monday.
Fubara inaugurated the seven-member commission at the Executive Chambers of Government House in Port Harcourt, a day after sponsored political set at least three local government secretariats ablaze following the swearing in of newly elected local government chairmen.
A statement on Tuesday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Nelson Chukwudi said the commission has one month to conclude its assignment.
It said that Justice Ibiwengi Minakiri is Chairman of the panel, while Mrs Inyingi Brown and Uzor Ikenga are Secretary; and counsel respectively.
Other members are Felicia Nwoke; Prof. Blessing Didia; Sir Samuel Egbe; and Venerable Alex Usifor.
The governor said the recent attacks and burning of local government councils’ secretariats on October 7, 2024, looked like a repeat of what happened in 2014, months to the general elections of 2015 when courts were set ablaze, residences bombed and people killed.
He vowed that his administration will not look away while ill-guided youths and sponsored political thugs turn the state into a theatre of violence without being made to pay for such crimes.
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