Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, grieving over the recent murder of his Senior Special Assistant on Security, Christopher Dega, has described it as huge blow and a great loss to his administration.
“For him to have been murdered in the manner they did; a retired AIG gunned down. This is very sad,” Mr Ortom says.
The governor said this while speaking to journalists on Wednesday at Benue Peoples House, Makurdi.
Mr Ortom said the retired Assistant Inspector General of Police was very active, even in retirement, saying it was painful that he was gunned down in such a gruesome manner.
“Retired AIG Dega served with me here, and this is someone who has retired but is not tired and was very active. So, for him to have been murdered in the manner they did, a retired AIG gunned down. This is very sad,” Mr Ortom stated.
He stressed that insecurity has covered the North East, North West and North Central, South-South, South East, South West of Nigeria and called on the security agencies to find the killers of his aide.
Mr Ortom sympathised with the family, friends and former colleagues of the deceased and prayed to God to grant him eternal rest.
Before his retirement from the police, Mr Dega served as commissioner of police in Borno and Edo
states.
Mr Dega, a retired police officer, was killed in Jos, the Plateau State capital.
Benue and Plateau are neighbouring states in North-central Nigeria.
The killing occurred a few days after the murder of a former political adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, and a member of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, was shot dead on Sunday evening by unknown gunmen in Owerri, Imo State. Mr. Gulak was on his way back to Abuja after attending the constitutional review sitting in Owerri.