Rivers: Call for arrest of CTC chairmen invitation to anarchy — Group

A pro-democracy group, the People’s Congress, has knocked the factional Rivers State House of Assembly for calling on the Nigeria Police Force to arrest the chairmen and members of the 23 LG Caretaker Committees in the state.

In a statement issued Wednesday, Dr Nicholas Udenta, President of the group, said Martin Amaewhule and his co-travellers are simply calling for anarchy in the state, and their call should be disregarded by the law enforcement agencies.

“It’s obvious that Martin Amaewhule and his co-travellers are still brooding over the loss of their membership in the Rivers State Assembly following their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress.

“They have themselves to blame; they were aware of the position of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the defection of lawmakers before choosing to commit political suicides,” the statement said.

“Their continuous vendetta and plots against the government and people of Rivers State are getting out of hand, and they need to stop playing politics with the development of the state.

“The latest show of shame by these imposters, pretending to be lawmakers, was their unlawful call for the police to arrest the duly constituted Caretaker Committee Chairmen and members in Rivers State.

“The world knows that after the expiration of the tenure of the LGA Chairmen, Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s administration constituted Caretaker Committees to manage the affairs of the local governments pending the next election, as any responsible government would have done.

“But in their usual nature of witch-hunting any progress made by Fubara’s administration, the disgruntled former lawmakers are now shamelessly calling on the Nigeria Police to arrest the members of the duly constituted Caretaker Committees.

“Their call is tantamount to calling for anarchy. We urge the good officers and men of the Nigeria Police and other law enforcement agencies to disregard the call of the saboteurs pretending to be lawmakers.

“They are out to destabilise Rivers State and should be completely ignored, or better yet, arrested for attempting to incite anarchy in the state.”

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