Armed Robbery Attack: RSNC Commiserates With Bereaved Family

The Rivers State News
paper Corporation  (RSNC), Port Harcourt, has promised to support the families of late Engr Appollos  Dafierechi Dikibo who lost his life to armed robbery attack last Friday.
The General Manager of RSNC, Mr Celestine Ogolo, made the pledge on  behalf of the corporation when he led other management  staff  to a condolence visit to the bereaved family  at their residence, Bende Street, Port Harcourt, last Monday.
Late Engr Appollos Dafierechi  Dikibo, an indigene of Okrika Local Government Area  of the state, aged  58 years,  was among the over  10 victims that lost their lives to a dreaded armed robbery operation that threw the state into mourning  last Friday.
Before his untimely death, late Engr Dikibo was the Chief Executive Officer to a catering firm that  operates the  corporation’s staff canteen.
Speaking at the condolence visit, Mr. Ogolo  stated that staff of the corporation received the news of his death with great shock  and sadness and added that the late Engr. Dikibo  was known to the society as a peace-loving and quiet gentleman.
The general  manager  told the family  members that they were at their residence to sympathise  with them and to reassure them of the corporation’s  resolve  to support  them during  the  burial especially in the area of publicity and added that the corporation considered them as part of its big family.
He urged the family to take solace in the hands of God especially at this trying moment, adding that no mortal can question God why he allowed the incident to occur.
“We are here  to commensurate  with you, we understand what you are really feeling, but we lack  words, for God said we should rely on him on what ever happened, so we can not reverse the hands of the clock backward. So continue to have faith in God,” he stated. The general manager urged them to uphold the legacies of the family bequeathed to them by their late father.
Responding, the widow of the Late Engr Dikibo,  Mrs Sarah Dikibo, thanked the management of RSNC  for the visit, adding  that it has given them more hope.

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Rivers State NUJ Chairman, Mr. Opaka Dokubo (left) addressing the Police Public Relation Officer, Rivers Command, ASP Ahmad (right) during a protest match by members of the Nigerian Union of Journalists against electoral violence in the state, recently.