The Government House Photographer, Reginald Dei, who was shot by men in Army uniform in Oweikorogha, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area òf Bayelsa State, during the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections has died.
According to a statement by the Director Corporate Communications, Governor’s Office, Nathan Egba-Ologo, the photographer died on Sunday night after battling to survive the wounds from the gunshots.
He died in a Yenagoa hospital.
Recall that Dei was shot alongside the leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Oweikorogha community, Mr. Seidougha Taribi, while they were waiting for the outcome of the election in their ward at the politician’s residence.
While Dei who was initially taken for dead survived the attack until Sunday night, Taribi died on the spot.
Egba-Ologo called on the relevant security agencies to investigate the activities of the various security agencies in order to bring the culprits of the dastardly act to book.
According to him, “while the state was mourning the unfortunate murder of Taribi and Dei as a result of the brigandage that rocked the parts of the state during the Presidential election, thugs working for All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftains have been allowed to wreak havoc in Nembe Bassambiri.”
He stated further that the rampaging thugs have sacked the mobile policemen and the operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on deployment in the besieged community.
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Egba-Ologo lamented that the rampaging thugs have dug military fashion trenches in Bassambiri with barricades to harass PDP members in the community and prevent those who fled the community from returning.
He called on the leadership of the Nigerian Army and the other security agencies to prevent brigandage and a breakdown of law and order in the area ahead of the next elections.
He urged the security agencies to adhere strictly to their constitutional responsibility to ensure the provision of security and indeed the requisite environment in the next election.
