Police threaten to arrest Amaechi’s aide, LG chairmen The Rivers State Police Command has threatened to arrest and prosecute the Chief of Staff, Rivers State Government House, Port Harcourt, Chief Tony Okocha, and some local government council chairmen. The police command said it would not watch some politicians engage unemployed youths to destabilise the state, stressing that any politician, who engaged in such an act, will be prosecuted. The police command also warned that any person that allowed himself to be used to destabilise the state and the country would be dealt with. It also cautioned that sponsors of such unemployed youths would be tracked down, arrested and prosecuted on treasonable grounds. A statement signed by the State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ahmad Mohammad, and made available to Saturday PUNCH via electronic mail, denied claims by Okocha that the lawmaker representing Rivers South-East in the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Abe, was flown abroad in an air ambulance. It pointed out that contrary to the claim, the lawmaker had travelled by an Air France Airline as the first passenger on the airline’s manifest on the day he (Abe) was flown abroad. Okocha had testified before the Senate Committee on Police Affairs over the attack by policemen on a rally organised by the Save Rivers Movement. “It is pertinent to advise that the Chief of Staff and some local government chairmen, who have been holding clandestine meetings on how to disrupt the peace of the state further by employing the services of unemployed and disgruntled youths to cause mayhem capable of destabilising the polity and socio-economic activities of not only the state, but the Federal Republic of Nigeria. “The command will not watch people take laws into their hands as the full wrath of the law will not hesitate to fall on them. “Their sponsors will equally be tracked down, arrested and charged to Court on treasonable grounds,” the statement read in part. The police also denied the claim by Okocha that the officers, who allegedly shot Abe, were arrested and identified those arrested as a corporal of the Nigeria Police and personnel of the Department of State Security Service attached to the Chief of Staff. According to the statement, “It is necessary to bring to the public the fact that actually, two security personnel were arrested by the police on the day of the incident. “Those arrested were a Corporal of the Nigeria Police and personnel (member) of the Department of State Security Service both Attached to the Chief of Staff who, rather than sticking to their assigned roles, went out of their ways to carry out the unprofessional job of spying for the Chief of Staff. “These men, as at the time of their arrest, concealed a service pistol and walkie-talkie radio respectively and tried to infiltrate into the midst of officers and men officially assigned to the venue of the failed rally.” Reacting, the Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, Chief Tony Okocha, said he was not afraid of being arrested, even as he accused the police of withdrawing his security details at will. Okocha pointed out that he never told anybody that those that shot the lawmaker had been arrested by the police. He told Saturday PUNCH that he only said that his security details were arrested by the police on the day they (police) dispersed the crowd at the rally in Obio/Akpor. On the claim by the police command that he and council chairmen were holding clandestine meetings, Okocha explained that by virtue of his position, he had the right to meet with council chairmen in order to disentangle the state from the hands of political buccaneers and the State Police Commissioner, Mr. Joseph Mbu.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 05:35:54 +0000
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