Rivers governor inaugurate judicial commission to investigate killings in re-run election

      Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has inaugurated a Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the killings and violence that attended the re-run/supplementary elections on December 10, 2016 in the state.

   Inaugurating the commission of inquiry at Government House, Port Harcourt, Governor Wike charged the commission to find out the number of those killed and persons responsible for their deaths.
   He also charged the Commission to ascertain the names of those who were killed, but however stated that it was not within the purview of the Commission to investigate how the elections were conducted.
  He called on members of the commission to stand by the truth and be courageous in the discharge of their assignment.
Responding, Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry, Justice Chinwendu Nwogu, assured that the commission would discharge its assignment within the confines of the law.