Police IG visits Rivers State, shuns Visit to Amaechi

 

A lot of people were filled with surprise on Monday as the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, who visited Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, didn’t visit the state Governor, Rotimi Amaechi.

It was learnt that Abubakar was in the state to inaugurate 100 Prado Sports Utility Vans donated to the nine Niger Delta state Police commands by the Niger Delta Development Commission.

The IGP also did not address officers and men of the command, who waited for several hours to hear from their boss.

It was the state Deputy Commissioner of Police, Operations, Mr. Joshak Habila, who addressed the officers and men of the Police. He thanked them for coming out enmasse.

It was at that pointed that security operatives, especially those in their ceremonial uniforms, who had waited to mount a guard of honour, left in disappointment.

Also, journalists, who waited anxiously to get Abubakar’s views on the crisis rocking the state and the controversy surrounding the decision of the state Police Commissioner, Mr. Joseph Mbu, to ban rallies, left in disappointment.

Reacting, the Chief Press Secretary, Mr. David Iyofor, said there was nothing to comment on over the refusal of the IGP to visit the governor.

Iyofor said the decision of the police boss to visit or not to visit the governor was entirely his own (IGP’s).

“Even the IG did not see the officers and men that waited in the command. I cannot say if he was in a hurry, but he (Abubakar) only went to the Police Primary School, where he inaugurated some vehicles and later moved from there to the Airforce Base,” Mrs. Angela Agabe, the state Police Public Relations Officer, explained.