Gunmen
on Friday evening murdered the Executive Secretary of Bayelsa State Independent
Electoral Commission, Mr. Simon Akpen, in Yenagoa, the state capital.
It was
learnt that his assailants shot him in the head as he alighted from his car
near his residence off Otiotio Road about 10pm.
Sources
said Akpen, who was from Ofoni in Sagbama Local Government Area of the state
reportedly died on the spot.
The
armed men were said to have fled the scene of the crime without collecting any
valuable from their victim.
Last
week, the state government, after its 21st State Security Council Meeting in
Yenagoa, had said it was making concerted efforts to tackle criminal acts such
as sea piracy, thuggery and brigandage ahead of the 2015 general elections.
Governor
Seriake Dickson had vowed during the opening of the meeting that the days of
militias and gun-running were over, stressing that the institutions of state
would not succumb to partisanship and undue pressure.
Commissioner
of Police in the state, Valentine Ntomchukwu, confirmed the killing of the
BYSIEC high ranking official.
Ntomchukwu
suspected it might be a case of assassination as the hoodlums did not remove
any of his valuables.
“In my
opinion, it may be a case of assassination because they didn’t take anything
away after
killing
him,” the police boss noted.
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