Security
THE Ijaw Youths Council, IYC, has raised the alarm over the recent decision of Ibrahim Idris, inspector general of police, to post four Commissioners of Police to Bayelsa State in less than two weeks.
Alfred Kemepado, secretary-general of the IYC, said in a statement on Sunday that, it was indeed suspicious for the Force Headquarters to post four commissioners of police to one state, within such a short period of time.
The IYC scribe said that, the action of the Force Headquarters, under the leadership of the IGP smacks of a surreptitious plot by the All Progressives Congress, APC, to use the police authorities to politicize the security architecture of the state, with the sole aim to cause instability and destabilize Bayelsa State.
Kemepado called on the police authorities not to allow themselves to be used by politicians, pointing out that, the removal of Commissioner of police Don Awunah after working so hard in collaboration with sister security agencies to safeguard the state within a short period of his deployment to the state and the frequent change of guard in the leadership of the Bayelsa State Police Command within two weeks, points in the direction of politicization of security in the state.
He listed the police commissioners, who have been posted to Bayelsa State in the last two weeks to include, Joseph Mukan, Ahmed Bello, Ahmad Abdulrahman and Austin Iwar.
He recalled the repeated warnings by critical stakeholders in the polity against the politicization of security, which could cause insecurity in the society.
Kemepado said that, since the transfer of Awunah to the headquarters, the Police Headquarters had left Bayelsa without a state police commissioner.
According to him, information at the disposal of the IYC indicated that, no police commissioner had taken over from Awunah, almost two weeks after his redeployment from the state to Force Headquarters, Abuja.
He said, “The Ijaw Youths Council has observed with concern the frequent and curious deployment of police commissioners to Bayelsa State in the past two weeks.”
– Jul. 30, 2018 @ 13:35 GMT |
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