The Ijaw People’s Development Initiative(IPDI) worldwide has said it will not rest until the killers of Taylor Agofugha is brought to justice.

The group has accused governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa and security apparatus of “trivializing the senseless killing of Taylor Agofugha by some Aladja youths”, an issue which it described as capable of snowballing into another communal conflict between the two communities.

The Ijaw People’s Development Initiative(IPDI) in a statement by its national Secretary, Comrade Emma Keneware added that the death of late Taylor would be in vain, except the culprits are apprehended and brought to justice, that it would not view the matter from criminal perspectives.

Keneware averred that the governor of Delta State and Security Agents failure to unmasked the suspected neighbourhood killers of slain Taylor after 7days of his death was suspicious and meant to glorify the supposed criminals.

IPDI stressed that the silence of governor Okowa on Taylor murder does not serve the best interest of the public and as such could mean given consent to evil and open support against goodwill.

Comrade Emma Keneware noted that except the culprits being used as scapegoats, the “senseless killing of law-abiding people in Ogbe-Ijoh would continue”.

“The killing of Taylor by some trigger-happy youths of Aladja community,” violates the peace accord reached between the two communities and that the fray nerves can only be calmed when the culprits were punished for their heinous crime.

Meanwhile, Comrade Ezekiel Daniel, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Security, has described the killing of Mr. Taylor Agofugha in the Ogbe Ijoh community as an act of criminality which the state government cannot condone.

Daniel, in a statement, assured the community that security agents had been asked to fish out perpetrators of the dastardly act.

According to Daniel, the killing came in the wake of renewed attacks among the Aladja and Ogbe Ijoh communities, leading to the invasion of houses in the Ogbe-Ijoh community, where the victim was slain.

Daniel lamented: “It is very unfortunate killing someone in his own house. This is a criminal act, especially as the person involved is not a belligerent. Those hiding under communal war to perpetrate crime have overstepped their boundary as no criminal can hold the state to ransom.”

“We condemn the act in strong terms as the security agents have been asked to fish out the perpetrators as we do not want to give it a communal war coloration so as not to escalate the already tenses situation.”

“I advise my fellow youths in the Ogbe-Ijoh community to stop any retaliatory moves as the government and security agents are on top of the matter.”