By Brave Dickson
The Civil Society Organisation in Rivers State has urged the new Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu to remain apolitical and discharge his duty professionally as a police officer.
The group also asked the new CP to avenge the killing of SP Angbashim Bako by arresting and prosecuting all the killers of the DPO.
The Chairman of CSO in the state, Comrade Ene-faa Georgewill made these known in a chat with our correspondent as part of the group’s expectations on the new CP.
He said: “First and foremost, we welcome the new Commissioner of Police to Rivers State. We equally want to remind him that our state is politically charged.
“This is a state where politics is the means of production. Political elites here invest so much in politics and would do anything in the name of politics.
“We want to advise the new commissioner of police to be apolitical; be neutral and not take sides with political factions.
“He should discharge his duties professionally as a police officer. We equally want to call on the new CP to work with the governor of the state who is the chief security officer of the state to make sure that they protect lives and properties.
“Kidnappings, robbery and ritual related crimes are going on in some parts of the state, the new CP should try as much as he can to make such crimes a thing of the past in the state.
“We also want the new CP to redeem the image of the police in the area of human right abuses. The police seem not to learn anything from the EndSARS crisis and protests which Rivers people were major part of.
“The level of extortion by the police from motorists on our roads is just not acceptable which they do without decorum. It is more like collecting money at gunpoint from motorists.
“But to crown it all, we will want the new CP to avenge the death of SP Angbashim who was the best crime fighting DPO in the state and was gruesomely killed in the course of fighting crimes.
“He should use his good office as CP to get all the killers of Bako arrested and prosecuted to serve as deterrence. These are some of our expectations on the new CP.”
