IYC calls for caution, as IG posts 4 CPs to Bayelsa in two weeks

THE Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), has called on Bayelsans to take caution over the recent decision of the Inspector General of Police (IG), Mr Ibrahim Idris, to post four Commissioners of Police to Bayelsa State in less than two weeks.

The Secretary-General of the IYC, Mr Alfred Kemepado, in a statement issued in Yenagoa, frowned at the action of the IG, saying they suspect it to be a ploy to destabilise the current peace the state enjoys ahead of the 2019/2020 general elections in the state.

“It was indeed suspicious for the Force Headquarters to post four commissioners of police to one state, within such a short period of time.

“It is a surreptitious plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC), to use the police authorities to politicise the Security architecture of the state, with the sole aim of causing instability and destabilise Bayelsa State.” The statement added.

Kemepado called on the police authorities not to allow themselves to be used by politicians, pointing out that, the removal of CP Don Awunah after working so hard in collaboration with sister security agencies to safeguard the state within a short period of his deployment to the state points in the direction of politicisation of security in the state.

He listed the police commissioners, who have been posted to the State in the last two weeks to include, Joseph Mukan, Ahmed Bello, Ahmad Abdulrahman and Austin Iwar.

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According to him, information at the disposal of the IYC indicated that no police commissioner had taken over from Don Awunah, almost two weeks after his redeployment from the state to Force Headquarters, Abuja.

“While it is the duty of the Force Headquarters to determine the posting of police officers to formations within and outside the country, we find it troubling that, four commissioners of police have been posted to Bayelsa State in the past two weeks.

“We wish to make it clear that, instability in Bayelsa, the only homogenous Ijaw State in Nigeria, could cause instability across the Niger Delta.

“It is on this note that, we call on the Force Headquarters and the IGP to exercise restraint and resist the plot by desperate politicians to use police authorities to politicise the security in the state.”