The
prominent civil Rights advocacy group – HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF
NIGERIA (HURIWA) has lambasted the inspector general of police Alhaji Mohammed
Adamu for embarking on a meaningless voyage of discovery in search of infantile
reasons for the failures of security management during the just ended
governorship polls in Kogi and Bayelsa states.
HURIWA
has also canvassed broad based media BLACKOUT by the independent Nigerian media
industry of the activities and statements of the State Security Services (SSS)
also known as DSS for deliberately defecating on top of the Constitution of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999 (as amended) by their disgraceful resort to
illegality and illogicality in clear violations of subsisting and binding
Orders of Competent Courts of law in their willful failures to release Omoyele
SOWORE and Olawale Bakare from illegal detention days after the Federal High
Court ordered their immediate release. "The media should stop using the
disjointed and illogical statements emanating from State Security Services
which graphically paints Nigeria like a Banana republic or a failed state in
the eyes of the international community. The varying weird explanations of
these violations of the constitutional rights of citizens SOWORE and Bakare and
many others languishing in solitary confinement held by the DSS as against
binding bail orders from the Federal High Courts amounts to deliberate
misinformation and the spreading of fake news and should not be encouraged by
the Nigerian media. If the officers of SSS have lost their collective sense of
shame please the media should stop allowing themselves to be used by DSS or SSS
to insult and assault our sensibilities ".
The
Rights group stated that it was shocking that the chief of police of the
Nigerian state can be heard saying that politicians used fake policemen to
undermine the security of the elections even when the police’s hierarchy had
deployed 66, 241 police operatives for the exercise.
The
Rights group said if Nigeria was indeed a constitutional democracy and were it
not that the Federal government is the chief promoter of impunity, lawlessness
and flagrant disregard for the Rule of law, the inspector general of police
having failed abysmally to secure the Kogi and Bayelsa elections would have
either resigned or would have since been dismissed.
In a
statement by the National Coordinator COMRADE
Emmanuel Onwubiko, HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA)
has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the failed inspector general of
police Mohammed Adamu unless the Federal government of President Muhammadu
Buhari and his party the All Progressives Congress are the direct beneficiaries of the gale of
insecurity and threats to national security that was witnessed during the
heavily manipulated and orchestrated electoral heist that took place in Kogi
and Bayelsa states few days ago.
“In
saner climes, the chief of police could have tendered his resignation for
absolute failure to stop the bloody violence that trailed both the Kogi and
Bayelsa election including the burning to death of a Peoples’ Democratic Women
leader Mrs. Acheju Abuh by All Progressives Congress armed thugs but here we
are in a Country that masquerades about as a constitutional democracy and we
conducted a violent election in which many lives were lost but the boss of the
Police who failed in his duty rather than take responsibility and then quit is
busy dishing out cock and bull stories to explain his apparent failure of
leadership of the Nigerian police Force. Can we tell the failed IGP that
scholars of management science say that responsibility means state of being
accountable or answerable for any obligation, trust, debt or something or in
other words it means obligation to complete a job assigned on time and in best
way. Responsibility according to management experts refers to an obligation to
do something. When authority is delegated then some responsibility for getting
the assigned task done is also fixed. Why has the police under the watch of the
inspector general of police refused to arrest the armed thugs that killed the
innocent woman politician and the nephew of senator Dino Melaye? The president
should immediately remove the IGP unless of course the All Progressives
Congress benefitted from the bloody violence that characterized the charade of
an election.”
“We
in HURIWA aligned ourselves with the clarion call by good spirited
non-governmental groups that have rejected the elections that took place in
Kogi and Bayelsa which from every indications, were cases of daylight robbery
of the mandate of the electorate. The failures of security is a direct breach
of the part 2 of the Nigerian Police Act which in Article 6 of the Act provides
that the force shall be under the command of the inspector general and
contingents of the Force stationed in a state, shall, subject to the authority
of the inspector general of police be under the command of the commissioner of
police: If therefore there are cases of breaches of the security the type we
saw in Kogi and Bayelsa the inspector general of police must take
responsibility and be punished instead of letting him orchestrate a comedy of
the absurd and dance naked in the market place by way of trying to manufacture
excuses for the clear dereliction of duty.”
HURIWA
rejected the claims of the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, who
said politicians and other actors made plans to counter security arrangements
for Saturday’s governorship poll in Bayelsa and Kogi states.
"HURIWA
hereby demands that the Nigerian President stops the IGP from further
disgracing Nigeria before the World. The European Union monitored these
elections and has issued damaging reports of compromise of the security
management of the elections but here we are being insulted by an IGP who said
part of the counter plans before the election made by the politicians was to
sew uniforms for persons that posed as policemen and security officials. But
this IGP has not tendered one single
empirical evidence of arrest of these politicians and the Police have failed to
arrest the fake police but rather the IGP Mohammed Adamu, who spoke with State
House Correspondents after President Muhammadu Buhari and the service chiefs,
held a meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, maintained that the police and
other security officers deployed for the elections carried “special
identification tags.” even when he admitted that while the police did their
arrangements, politicians and persons the IG called the “bad guys”, also made
counter plans to cause problems in some isolated areas in Kogi and Bayelsa
states. The IGP Mohammed Adamu has indeed failed in his duty and the least he
can do is to resign or apologize and then go after the agents of criminality
that unleashed the blood cuddling violence in Kogi and Bayelsa states during
the polls. He should stop insulting our collective psyche."
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