Some unhappy and aggrieved indigenes of Bayelsa State under the banner of Bayelsa Youth Vanguard in the in previous weeks issued a warning to Patience Jonathan ( READ HERE if you missed it) not to accompany the President to the state come Feb 5 for the PDP rally if there should be peace,
Following this threat the Commissioner of Police of Bayelsa, Mr Valantine Ntomchukwu, has sent a clear and resounding warning to the group with intention to cause uproar during the rally to desist or leave the state, because the police will not hesitate to arrest and deal with those responsible for any act the breach the state peace,he said during his briefing to journalist in Yenagoa.
Ntomchukwu said: “I want to appeal to the general public to come out in large numbers to welcome the President and the First Lady who have done so much for this country. These miscreants cannot disrupt the peace of Bayelsa.
“On that day, we will be celebrating because it is the day the President is coming, not necessarily as PDP, but as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. So, they cannot come and tarnish the image of President in his home state”.
He added, “The police will not hesitate to deal decisively according to the extant laws with any such groups when arrested. I want to assure you that we are already trailing the mangrove boys anywhere they may be.
“So, my advice is that these boys should just go away from the state entirely because since they have done this publication, they have put themselves on a firing line and we are definitely going to pursue them.
“We are operating with intelligence and the agencies are at our disposal. As soon as we catch them, they will face the wrath of the law. Even though they are faceless, any time they become visible we are definitely going to deal with them.
“They call themselves Mangrove Boys and so we are going to turn attention to any information about them, anything about creek activities, anything about underworld activities in the creeks and we will beam our light on them. I am warning them to please give peace a chance because once we get them, we will deal with them according to the law”.
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