2015: SECURITY AGENCIES PROBE NORTHERNERS MOVEMENT: We should take this probe in a good fate because the times and season demands this scrutiny. Actually, this is not the time of such exodus, so there should be every reasons to be worried about such influx of Northerners moving in great volume. No body should impute negative motives into the probing as failure to do so actually led to the solid foundation laid by the Boko haram sect. Some troublesome people like Lie Lie Muhamed of the discredited APC has been saying all sorts of nonsense by condemning the arrest and screening of some night marauding Northerners travelling with 33 Hilux clean Hummer buses to Portharcourt enroute Abia State which the intelligent security operatives rightly suspected and stopped and screened. There is nothing wrong in doing so. In fact yesterday, I was travelling to my own state and the security personnel stopped us and conducted checks and even opened my luggage and checked properly, I commended them for doing the proper thing, so if this could be done to an indigene by indigenous military officers, then doing so to other Nigerians and moreso doing same to a region that insurgents are now breeding should not bother the likes of Lai Muhammed of the APC. Even right now, in the Niger Delta region, there are special JTF personnel stationed here and there checking all persons and load, it is even worse here because there are check points especially in the marine world in the creeks where all passengers would raise their hands up at certain security check points and searched properly before allowing passage, and I haven’t heard of anyone from the Niger Delta complaining, so I don’t see why people should blame and complain if the security is doing their legitimate job, especially as the time demands A source in Abuja who craved to be anonymous said this was the issue being raised with their investigation of some 486 northerners arrested while travelling in a convoy of 33 buses to Abia State on June 16. He said, “There were allegations that the All Progressives Congress wants to move thousands of eligible voters from the North-West and North-Eastern part of the country to the South-East and South-South in the next few weeks where they could register as eligible voters ahead of the Presidential election in February next year. “Many of the 486 people who were arrested and detained had confessed to having been mobilised by political party chiefs to relocate to the South and integrate into the civil populace ahead of the 2015 polls. “The plan, according to some of those interviewed, is to increase the voting strength of the opposition political party and secure the mandatory 25 per cent of votes cast in those states and thereby enhance its chances of winning the Presidential election. “When one considers the fact that the constitution requires that for a person to be declared winner in a Presidential election, he must score at least one quarter of votes cast in 24 states in addition to scoring the highest number of votes cast nationwide, it becomes clear that a party which does not score this mandatory percentage in the 11 states of the South-East and South-South will be in a very precarious situation.” He also said that the investigation team was also said to have gathered that the arrested travelers could be just one tranche of thousands of others who he said might have moved earlier into different states and registered during the continuous voters registration exercise in six states. “Most of the arrested persons said they had never travelled out of the North and were told that arrangements had been made for their accommodation and feeding for the next six months,” he said. The source added that an unnamed leader of the group who is from one of the states in the North-West had confessed during interrogation that the logistics for the night journey was provided by an unnamed former member of the National Assembly. According to our source, “Several funds transfer by politicians into accounts of those arrested are currently being investigated while security agents have been put on alert to mount surveillance on those who had moved into the South much earlier. “The nation’s law does not recognise migrant voters. Everyone is expected to vote in his or her normal place of residence. This development is worrisome as it portrays the desperation of our politicians.”
Posted on: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 14:26:49 +0000
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