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  • Group condemns frequent deployment, redeployment of police commissioners in Bayelsa

    A group under the auspices of Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Vanguard has condemned the recent politicisation and frequent deployment and redeployment of police commissioners to Bayelsa State.

    This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of an emergency meeting by the Bayelsa APC Youth Vanguard and made available to journalists.

    The communiqué which was signed by the convener of the group, Mr Timi Okofo and the General Secretary, Mr Warepamo Ikoli, accused Governor Seriake Dickson and President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief Personal Security Officer (CPSO) in the Presidency of allegedly responsible for the constant deployment and redeployment of police commissioners in the state.

    They also accused Police Commissioner, Abdulkarim Dauda also in the villa, of allegedly using his privileged office to dictate to the Inspector General of Police which police officers should be posted to Badyelsa State to serve as the Commissioner of Police.

    The group therefore called for the immediate removal of CP Dauda as the Police Commissioner in charge of the Villa in view of the alleged gross abuse of his office, failure of which they will march to the Villa to protest the interference of CP Dauda and Governor Dickson in the security of Bayelsa State.

    The communiqué reads, “Our investigation revealed that our state governor, Seriake Dickson has been at the epicentre of this unfortunate development. The governor has used his incumbency advantage to ensure that only police officers whose loyalty to his ruling party in Bayelsa State, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) are the ones that are retained in the state.

    “Conversely, the governor always raises the false alarm each time a police commissioner who demonstrates strict professionalism and non-partisanship is posted to Bayelsa State and ensures that such officers are promptly redeployed away from the state.”

    The APC group also frowned at the latest use of CP Dauda by Dickson last week, to remove Mr. Joseph Mukan as the Commissioner of Police in the state and replacing him with a PDP police chief loyalist and the former Commissioner of Police from a friendly PDP State in Kwara, Mr. Aminu Pai Saleh.

    “We recall that upon his posting and assumption of office in Bayelsa State in November last month, Mukan immediately settled down to work, pledged his neutrality to the politicians and strict adherence to professionalism, read the riot act to criminals and miscreants, deployed his professional skills to root out the criminals and restore sanity to Bayelsa State.”

  • Major shake up in Nigerian Air Force, 58 Officers Redeployed

    Major shake up in Nigerian Air Force, 58 Officers Redeployed

    A major shakeup involving the redeployment of a total of 58 Senior Officers in the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has been announced following the establishment of two new Commands and a Branch.

    Following the development, 25 Air Vice Marshals, 20 Air Commodores, 5 Group Captains and One Wing Commander were moved from their duty posts to man other strategic positions in the NAF.

    The authority of the NAF said it was part of restructuring efforts to enhance the effective and efficient projection of the nation’s air power. The shake up also affected 4 Squadron Leaders, 2 Flight Lieutenants and One Flying Officer.

    The Director of Public Relations and Information of the NAF, Air Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya who gave reasons for the redeployment of the Officers in a statement, said the two new Commands established by the NAF are the Air Training Command (ATC) with headquarters in Kaduna and the Ground Training Command (GTC) with headquarters in Enugu.

    The statement reads: “As part of restructuring efforts by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) to enhance the effective and efficient projection of air power, 2 new Commands and a Branch have been established. The 2 new Commands established are the Air Training Command (ATC) with Headquarters in Kaduna and Ground Training Command (GTC) with Headquarters in Enugu.

    “These new commands were excised from the now defunct Training Command (TC) thereby bringing the total number of Commands in the NAF to 6. The ATC will be responsible for the implementation of policies on flying and air operations while the GTC will be responsible for the implementation of local ground training.

    “The newly established Branch is known as Communications Branch. The Branch was unbundled from the former Logistics and Communications Branch which brings the number of NAF branches to 10. The new Branch would handle all the needs of the NAF, with regards to communications, electronics, radar maintenance, Information and Space Technology.

    “Sequel to this development, the NAF has redeployed a total of 58 officers comprising 25 Air Vice Marshals (AVM), 20 Air Commodores, 5 Group   Captains, one Wing Commander, 4 Squadron Leaders, 2 Flight Lieutenants and one Flying Officer.

    “Among those posted to Defence Headquarters are AVMs Wakili Ahmed, Defence Policy and Plans; Ibrahim Umaru, Director Safety and Manual; Benjamin Nweze, Director, Civil-Military Relations; Eche Agwungwu, Director Space; Bernard Chiobi, Director of Operations and Onyemaechi Osahor, Director General Defence Research Production Bureau.

    “Senior Officers posted within HQ NAF include AVMs Nurudeen Balogun who is now Chief of Training and Operations; Muhammadu Muhammed,  Chief of Policy and Plans; Charles Otegbade, Director of Plans; Olusoji Awomodu, Director of Museum and Archives; Sani Ahmed, Director of Policy; Muhammad Abdul-Wahab, Air Secretary; Kingsley Lar, Chief of Standards and Evaluation; Napoleon Bali, Director of Training; Christian Dii, Managing Director Aircraft Engineering and Technical Services Limited; Abdulganiyu Olabisi, Chief of Aircraft Engineering; Charles Oghomwen, Chief of Communications, Cletus Udeagulu, Director Research and Development and Paul Dimfwina, Director of Evaluation.

    “Similarly, the newly appointed Air Officers Commanding are AVMs Samson Akpasa, Ground Training Command, Enugu; Saddiq Kaita, Special Operations Command, Bauchi; and Mohammed Idris, Tactical Air Command, Makurdi”.

  • Redeployment: Police warn personnel to shun misconduct 

    Police personnel allegedly protesting the recent redeployment of senior officers have been warned to shun such “misconduct or be sanctioned”.

    Force Public Relations Officer  (FPRO) Don Awunah, a Deputy Commissioner of Police  (DCP), said this in a statement yesterday.

    Reacting to some media reports accusing the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris of witch-hunt, tribalism and favouritism, Awunah warned that police personnel should remember that postings were administrative issues.

    “It is suffice to state that transfers and postings in the Nigeria Police are administrative and routine aimed at enhancing utmost efficiency of the officers and men of the Force for better and effective service delivery.

    “It is imperative to enlighten the public that police officers are subject to movements, transfers and postings within the Force and other assignments in the course of their career. Protest in this regard amount to serious misconduct and could attract commensurate sanctions.

    “The IGP Ibrahim Idris will not be distracted or deterred from carrying out his statutory responsibilities for the benefit of all police personnel and the public that we serve.

    “It is utterly misleading to assert that the recent transfers and postings in the Force across the country were based on witch-hunting, tribalism and favouritism. That the IGP has flooded strategic command units with his kinsmen from Niger State and vendetta against officers hoping to ascend to higher positions in the force in future.”

  • Redeployment: Police warn personnel to shun misconduct

    Redeployment: Police warn personnel to shun misconduct

    The police have warned its personnel allegedly protesting the recent redeployment of senior officers to shun misconduct or be sanctioned.

    Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO) Don Awunah, a Deputy Commissioner of Police  (DCP) conveyed this in a statement released Wednesday.

    Reacting to some media reports accusing the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris of witch-hunt, tribalism and favouritism, Awunah warned that police personnel remember postings were administrative issues.

    It is suffice to state that transfers and postings in the Nigeria Police Force are administrative and routine aimed at enhancing utmost efficiency of the officers and men of the Force for better and effective service delivery.

    “It is imperative to enlighten the public that Police officers are subject to movements, transfers and postings within the Force and other assignments in the course of their career. Protest in this regard amount to serious misconduct and could attract commensurate sanctions.

    “The IGP Ibrahim Idris will not be distracted or deterred from carrying out his statutory responsibilities for the benefit of all Police personnel and the public that we serve.

    “It is utterly misleading to assert that the recent transfers and postings in the Force across the Country were based on witch-hunting, tribalism and favouritism. That the IGP has flooded strategic command units with his kinsmen from Niger State and vendetta against officers hoping to ascend to higher positions in the Force in future.

    “It may interest the writer and the public to know that the officer alluded to in the report transferred to the Force Headquarters hails from Niger State, while the officer posted to Lagos hails from Osun State.

    “How does transferring a man from the same State with the IGP and replacing him with someone from a different state constitute nepotism? The IGP’s primary interest is Nigeria.”

  • Police re-deploys four DIGs

    Police re-deploys four DIGs

    The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, has approved the redeployment of four Deputy Inspectors-General of Police (DIGs).

    This is contained in a statement issued by CP Emmanuel Ojukwu, the Force Public Relations Officer, in Abuja on Monday.

    The affected officers are; DIGs Dan’Azumi Doma, formerly in charge of Force Criminal Investigations department, now heads the Department of Finance and Administration.

    Others are; Kakwe Katso, formerly in charge of Research and Planning, now in charge of Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Department, Abuja.

    Mrs Chintua Amajor-Onu, formerly AIG in charge of Force Investments, now DIG in charge of Department of Information and Communications Technology, Abuja.

    Mr Jubril Adeniji is the new DIG in charge of Department of Research and Planning, Abuja.

    The statement said that the redeployment is with immediate effect.

    It noted that DIGs Mamman Tsafe, in-charge of Department of Logistics and Supply, Abuja, and Saliu Hashimu, in-charge of Department of Training and Development, Abuja, are to maintain their duty posts.

    DIG Sotonye Wakama, of Department of Operations, Abuja, is also to maintain his duty post.

     

  • APC seeks redeployment of Rivers, Cross River, Akwa Ibom RECs

    The South-South Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Hilliard Eta, has called for the redeployment of the RECs of Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Rivers States.

    According to Eta, the RECs in these states did not handle the elections well in their states, which even led to loss lives.

    He said: “A lot of people have lost their lives in Rivers State and we cannot allow this kind of thing to continue. We have a situation where the REC is openly working with the Federal Government and PDP in Rivers State. The PDP had prepared a murder gang and the governor had shouted long before that time that even his own life was at threat and nobody paid heed to it. They thought it was just politics. And it happened that yesterday a lot of our members lost their lives in Rivers State. It is not business as usual. Even the loss of one life should repulse the nation in an electoral process. It ought to make us feel diminished as a people, not to talk about those many lives because the president must have millions of vote from Rivers State.

    “And in Akwa Ibom State, the governor had corrupted the REC and made sure that 90 per cent of the result sheets in Akwa Ibom were in the government house. Umana Umana shouted and nobody is paying heed. Even when they are calls for the election to be redone in other places, Akwa Ibom, Rivers State were not even mentioned. To INEC it was a free, fair and credible election that went on well and I must say that is wrong. What is it that happened in Jigawa, Nasarawa and Niger that did not happen in Akwa Ibom and Rivers? Why is it that INEC is having a rerun in those jurisdictions and not in Akwa Ibom and Rivers, where even the governor was not shown the result sheet in his polling unit? If the CSO of a state could not be shown the result sheet of his polling unit, how about lesser mortals?

    “In Cross River State, the REC refused to give result sheets in Cross River. I shouted before now that this REC sent to Cross River was a card-carrying member of the PDP and people shouted me down. Today it has come to fruition that he was sent here to do a hatchet job.

    “Let me say that elections have never held in south-south and south-east. We don’t know how to go out and vote and the votes are counted and the result would be the preference of the people. It has never happened and we were thinking that this time it would be different but it is not.

    “I don’t know how Nigeria would be marching forward and leaving south-south and south-east behind. Nigerians are not paying attention. Prof Jega is not bothered about what has happened in Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Cross River. It is unacceptable to us. When the people react, they would say APC is aggressive and call us all manner of names. So please our demand is that in the areas where elections where not done, it should be canceled. Elections are only done when results of the people are announced to the people. Sheets of the results are given to agents and pasted on the polling units. That is where you say that the process had been concluded. So where those processes were not concluded I beg that the elections should be re-conducted in those places.

    “The RECs of Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Cross River states be redeployed or they would cause more loss of lives in the south-south. They should allow us to participate in the electoral process.”

     

  • APC condemns Onyebuchi’s redeployment

    •PDP: Opposition’s criticism hasty

    The Enugu State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged Governor Sullivan Chime to stop his impunity against perceived foes.

    The party said this was evident in the redeployment of his former deputy, Sunday Onyebuchi, who left service as Permanent Secretary, now as a Deputy Director in the Civil Service.

    The former deputy governor was, on Monday, redeployed to the civil service as an Assistant Chief Administration Officer. Onyebuchi, in 2006, was promoted to the  Permanent Secretary by former Governor Chimaroke Nnamani.

    In a statement yesterday in Enugu, APC Southeast spokesman Osita Okechukwu said the civil service should not accommodate such a theatre of the absurd “where Chime, who owns a poultry farm with Chief Onyebuchi in the Government House and is equally culpable, will now wash his hands like Pontius Pilate”.

    He added: “Otherwise, the day before Governor Chime railroaded Enugu State House of Assembly, like a rubber-stamp, to impeach former Deputy Governor Sunday Onyebuchi on flimsy allegations and yesterday (Monday) he redeployed the same man to the civil service as a Deputy Director. What a huge joke!

    “We had thought, as a lawyer and former Attorney-General of Enugu State, that Governor Chime is knowledgeable enough to appreciate its trite law that impeachment in other words is conviction. Therefore, he cannot approbate and probate, hence arrogating himself the powers to clear Chief Onyebuchi from the undue conviction by this caricature appointment.

    “May we remind Governor Chime, lest he forgot, that the simple and honest path is for him to swallow his pride and apologise to Chief Onyebuchi, his co-beneficiary ex-governor, Dr Chimaroke Nnamani’s benevolence, who hand-picked both of them and imposed them on the people of Enugu State.

    “Governor Chime should stop the culture of impunity with Enugu State politics in his new road to dictatorship, especially on the eve of the crucial 2015 general elections.”

    But the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) described APC’s reaction to Onyebuchi’s redeployment as “typically and characteristically uninformed and full of mischief”.

    In a statement by its Secretary Dr. Okey Eze, the PDP said APC appeared not to know the difference between “appointment” and “redeployment”.

    It said: “In its usual haste to misinform the people, the party chose to forget or was ignorant of the fact that Mr Onyebuchi was a civil servant before his appointment to political offices and subsequent election as deputy governor.

    “If it (APC) had done its homework well, it would have known that Mr Onyebuchi never formally resigned from the civil service and that his appointment was not terminated while he occupied political offices. Having been relieved of his political office, is it not proper that he should return to his original service?

    “His redeployment should actually be seen as a great act of magnanimity by the state government.

    “It is strange that the party (APC) acted in such an indecent haste that it could not even wait to hear the views of Mr Onyebuchi on his redeployment before dabbling into it.”

  • ‘Customs officers shouldn’t grumble over redeployment’

    Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NSC) have been urged to embrace redeployment whenever it arises as such transfers are carried out in the overall interest of the agency and the country.

    The spokesman of the Customs, Tin Can Command Mr Chris Osunkwo, gave the advice while responding to the alleged protest by some officers of the agency at Tin Can Island Port.

    The Nation gathered that a group of Customs officers protested against the undue transfers of officers of the command. Besides the alleged arbitrary redeployment, the protesting officers said such transfers were done without payment of their allowances.

    The protesting officers said the transfers amounted to punishment, alleging that some officers that have just spent only one year in the Command were transferred without payment of the 28 days allowance, that was to enable them settle down in their new postings.

    One of the protesting officers said the transfers were baseless because the Command didn’t only meet its target, but clearly exceeded it,adding that it is unfortunate that before an officer would be able to settle down, he is separated from his family again in the name of transfer.

    “In August 2013, more than 212 officers and 364 officers were moved from Apapa and Tin Can Island ports, while other commands were not affected in any way,” the officers said.

    When contacted, Osunkwo said: “We have heard that some officers protested, but such officers were faceless, the truth is that there is nothing any knowledgeable officer can say or do about redeployment. The fact is that transfer or movement of officers is a routine exercise usually determined by management.

    “The management does have information at its disposal, which calls for who goes where, when and how. So for any officer to challenge, or grudge over a transfer is not advisable because the best an officer can do about deployment or redeployment is to grudge and that would not change anything because the management knows the reason for the redeployment, and it is always in the overall interest of the Service.”

    He said for, instance, if an Area Controller in Niger State writes to the management that he lacks certain cadres of officers who play very vital role in anti-smuggling operation, what the management will do, is to look for where it has excess of such officers, mop them up and redeploy them. But the officers being redeployed may not be privileged to the information those at the management level have. The officers will grumble only because they don’t know why. The management will not be happy to have any problem anywhere when it can be prevented, he added.

     

  • ACN demands redeployment of Police Commissioner

    The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has called on the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, to redeploy the Ondo State Commissioner of Police to forestall chaos in the state.

    According to a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the call was made by the ACN Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande and the governorship candidate, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, at a campaign rally held in Ore.

    They said the police commissioner has shown his preference for the Labour Party (LP), instead of being neutral as demanded by the sensitivity of his office.

    They said unless the partisan police boss is removed, the clamour for a free, fair and creditable poll on October 20 will be a mirage.

    Justifying the call, they said the Commissioner of Police has failed to respond to the attacks on ACN supporters in the past two days, during the party’s campaign rallies in Ikare and Ondo towns.

    “It has become a recurring experience in the last two days for suspected LP thugs to unleash terror on ACN supporters at the end of their campaign rallies.

    “After the rally in Ondo on Wednesday, some supporters of the ACN including a notable artiste, Ojo Arowosafe (aka Fadeyi Oloro) and a popular Ewi exponent, Femi Elaloro, were attacked by suspected LP hoodlums. They injured them and damaged their vehicles.

    “The Commissioner of Police, who was contacted, dismissed Akeredolu’s report, alleging that the ACN instigated the violence. Such action is not good for the conduct of a free and fair election. He must be redeployed without delay,” ACN said.