SAN FRANCISCO, March 04, (THEWILL) – The Government House Photographer, Reginald Dei, who was shot by men reportedly in Army uniform in Oweikorogha, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, during the last Presidential and National Assembly elections has died.
A statement by the Director Corporate Communications, Governor’s Office, Chief Nathan Egba-Ologo, stated that the photographer died after battling to survive the lethal wounds from the gunshots in a Yenagoa hospital on Sunday night.
Dei was shot alongside the leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oweikorogha community, Seidougha Taribi, while the duo were waiting for the outcome of the election in their ward at the politician’s residence.
While Dei who was initially taken for dead survived the attack until Sunday night, Taribi died on the spot.
Egba-Ologo called on the relevant security agencies to investigate the activities of the various security agencies in order to bring the culprits of the dastardly act to book.
He added that while the state was mourning the unfortunate murder of Taribi and Dei as a result of the brigandage that rocked the parts of the state during the Presidential election, thugs suspected to be working for the All Progressives Congress (APC), have been allowed to wreak havoc in Nembe Bassambiri.
He said further that the rampaging thugs have sacked the mobile policemen and the operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on deployment in the besieged community.
