Osits Obi a human rights activist based in the States, has called upon the Inspector General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun deploy the state Commissioner of Police, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam.
On Monday 18th Yesterday November …. unknown gunmen who have enforced sit-at-home order killed about five persons, injuring others.
The truth of the matter is that the Anambra State Police Command under CP Itam is incompetent and clueless, and I am asking the IGP to redeploy him from Anambra State immediately.
“He shouldn’t wait until all of us die. You get to a bank and you see policemen carrying guns standing in front of the bank and making themselves available for targeting. The same thing happens at checkpoints where they expose themselves while extorting motorists.
“When the hoodlums come, they get them easily because they are not focused on the job they were asked to do.
“Today, the major work of the Police in the state is to settle land disputes. What is the correlation between the job of the police which is the security of lives and land disputes,” he queried.
He lamented that despite all the attacks in the state, none has been conclusively unravelled or culprits arrested and brought to book.
He, however, contended that those insisting that police have not been supported with equipment by the state government should go and ask the immediate past CP, Mr Aderemi Adeoye which support he used to fight criminals to a standstill just months back, before his eventual retirement.
There have been several Incidents of violence and attacks in Anambra recently, including the killing of about 16 people in Nibo during the New Yam festival, just close to the Police headquarters, another nine on Awka, a day after, and several other incidences, including kidnapping.
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