The lawmaker representing Khana/Gokana Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Dumnamene Dekor says he is pained and dumb-founded by the shocking news of the devastating and barbaric killing of the Ahoada Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Bako Angbashim, a Superintendent of Police.

Angbashim lost his life in the line of duty over the weekend in the hands of a criminal gang in Ahoada-East Local Government Area of Rivers State.

Lamenting the loss of the police officer, whom he described as a “gallant crime fighter”, informed that until his recent deployment to Ahoada Division of the Nigeria Police Force early this year, the slain officer was the Divisional Police Officer in Bori, Khana LGA.

Noting that the death of SP Bako is not only a loss to the Nigeria Police, but a calamity to Rivers State and humanity in general, further describing SP Bako as “a rare species among his peers who saw crime fighting as a task and hobby to free mankind from the satanic tendencies of men of the underworld and undesirable elements in society and accordingly, distinguished himself in his belief and professional duty”.

The federal legislator, who is currently the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Host Communities, noted that “It takes generations to produce men and officers of his kind anywhere in the world,” asserting that “the Ogonis, Khana and Gokana Local Government Areas, in particular, have lost a beloved brother, and friend”.

Further noting that the relative peace and calm in Ogoniland today was sequel to SP Bako’s hard stance and fight against all manner of criminality in Ogoni land, regretting that the agents of darkness and their sponsors who are enemies of peace, order and general well-being of the people have at last succeeded in killing love, courage and the joy of the people.

Most regrettably, Rt. Hon. Dekor noted, was the manner and way these cursed and deranged elements butchered a man that had sacrificed his life on countless occasions to save even the lives of their relations from suffering the agonizing experience of a brutal, painful and slow death as he has.

Rt. Hon. Dekor sent his sympathies to the Nigeria Police Force, the immediate family of the fallen hero, the Rivers State government and the Ogoni people, urging all to take solace in the fact that SP Bako was a man of honour and gave up without compromising his respect and regard for the sanctity of life which portrays him as a candidate of Heaven exemplified by the outpouring and immeasurable sympathies, lamentations and kind words on his dignified personality by his admirers and well-wishers across the country.

The Ogoni-born politician, and former Deputy Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly commended the step already taken by Governor Siminalayi Fubara in placing a bounty on the fleeing leader of the criminal gang in Ahoada-East Local Government Area, and also passionately appealed to the Police and other security operatives to leave no stone unturned in ensuring that all the people involved in the dastardly act and conspiracy are arrested and brought to book so that it will serve an a deterrent to other conscienceless fools that may be plotting such evil in future.