2023: Ebonyi Indigenes Demand Probe, Redeployment of CP Garba Over Insecurity
- The Inspector General of Police Usman Baba Ahmed has been asked to redeploy the commissioner of police in Ebonyi state, Garba Aliyu
- The police boss was asked by some prominent indigenes in the state to disband the Ebube Agu group set up by the state government
- The indigenes alleged that the insecurity in the state in recent times is linked to activities of Ebube Agu and the police commissioner
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Abakaliki - The Association of Ebonyi Indigenes Socio-Cultural In the Diaspora (AEISCID) has asked the Inspector General of Police Usman Baba Ahmed, to immediately redeploy the commissioner of police in Ebonyi state, Garba Aliyu.
The AEISCID also asked the IGP to constitute a committee to probe CP Aliyu over various allegations levelled against his office.
Source: UGC
The Ebonyi indigenes further gave the police boss 48 hours ultimatum to disband Ebube Agu and set up a tactical squad in the southeast state.
The demands were contained in a statement made available to journalists on Thursday, November 10 in Abuja by the president of the association, Ambassador Paschal Oluchukwu.
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He said the demands followed some media reports raising the red flag over the degenerating security situation in Ebonyi state as a result of activities of the Ebube Agu Security Network.
The group noted that Ebube Agu has no place in Nigeria's law and democracy going by the extant provisions of Sections 4 and 214 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
While accusing CP Aliyu Garba of making himself a willing tool in the hands of the state government, the statement alleged that many residents have lost their lives in the process while majority of the operations and activities go unreported in any section of the media.
Part of the statement read:
“We demand immediately redeploying CP Garba and also constituting a committee to probe these very weighty allegations that has been leveled against an officer of the law who shouldn't be above the law!
“The police authorities must show cause by disciplining him and his equally accomplice top officers in the state command to serve as a deterrent to others.
“Deploying a very professional, incorrupt, competent and unbiased CP who will not be easily compromised to dance to the naked and desperate dictates of Governor Umahi. The CP must have records of self discipline and integrity not one being tried for corrupt practices.
“The Nigerian Police authorities should also constitute a public probe panel of enquiry for citizens who have been victims of Ebubeagu torture to lodge their petitions and complaints for immediate treatment of same just like during the EndSARS protest.
“Bring to book all it's officers and men of the Ebubeagu Security Network who are found wanting in one way or the other based on the petitions and allegations leveled against it's men and officers of Ebubeagu.”
2023: You can’t tell us presidential candidate to vote, AEISCID blast Umahi
Recall that the AEIDCID recently dismissed the comments of Governor Umahi concerning the 2023 presidential election.
Governor Umahi had said Ebonyi people won't vote for Peter Obi or any other presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections except Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Reacting to the comment, Ambassador Oluchchukwu asked all the eligible voters in the state to ignore the governor and go ahead to vote their conscience in 2023.
2023 elections: FCI to partner with other agencies to combat fake news
Meanwhile, FactCheck Initiative (FCI) has created a team for a cause that will involve partnering with the government and other agencies in other to have free, fair, and peaceful elections in Nigeria void of any form of violence in 2023.
The main aim of this cause will be to spot, examine and respond to the impact caused by any misleading information ahead of the upcoming 2023 general elections in Nigeria.
Adeoye Temitope, country director, FCI says stopping fake news and misinformation is the inspiration behind the project.
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