The assaination of a Bayelsa State-based journalist working at the State Radio Station, Famous Giobaro has continued to generate controversy, tension, condemnation by well-meaning citizens and civil society organisations,
The issue took a different dimension when Bayelsa Police Command barred the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Bayelsa Council from the planned procession in honour of its assassinated member with claims that the event and the publicity it would generate would jeopardise investigations.
Mr Famous Giobaro, a Desk Editor at Radio Bayelsa, a.k.a. Glory FM, was murdered last Sunday by gunmen at his residence in Yenagoa.
Mr John Angese, Chairman of Bayelsa NUJ, who spoke Wednesday in Yenagoa, said Bayelsa Police Commissioner, Mr Asuquo Amba, told the union to shelve the candle-lit procession.
The procession was billed to hold last Wednesday at the NUJ Secretariat in Yenagoa.
Angese noted  that the commissioner told the NUJ leadership to shelve the planned funeral procession, as he claimed that the event would obstruct tracking of the suspects.
Angese said that the police commissioner who declined to approve the public procession, pointed out that the ceremony would jeopardise ongoing investigation into the murder.
“Amba had assured the council that the police will fish out the killers of the journalist, saying that a suspect was being interrogated.
“The claim that our planned candle-lit procession would mar investigation is difficult to understand, but we have to shelve it, so that it will not be an excuse. They promised to conclude the case in one week, one week is not too far.
“We are waiting as we mourn the demise of one of us cut down in his prime, in cold blood,” Angese said.
The NUJ had in a statement on Monday condemned the assassination, urging the police to detect the culprits and prosecute them.
Meanwhile the Federated Correspondents’ Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ), Bayelsa State council has condemned the recent murder of a Yenagoa-based journalist, Famous Giobaro.
Late Giobaro, a desk editor with state-owned radio, Radio Bayelsa, who hailedfrom Otuedo community in Ogbia Local Government Areas of  Bayelsa  State, was killed in the early hours of Easter Sunday by yet to be identified gunmen.
In a statement in Yenagoa jointly signed by the Chairman of the chapel, Comrade Kola Oredipe, and the Secretary, Chris Eze, the death was callous and most wicked.
The death of Famous Giobaro, who was a jolly good fellow is a great loss to the journalism profession.
The statement calls on the Bayelsa State Government and the State Command of the
Police to immediately cause an investigation into the gruesome murder to unravel those behind the killing.
This must not go as one of the unresolved killings of journalists across the country.
The chapel sends its condolences to the immediate family of late Giobaro and management and staff of Radio Bayelsa Glory FM, over the painful loss.
The statement prays God to grant the departed eternal rest.