Rivers State Police Warns PDP Against Allegations of Affiliation with APC
The Rivers State Police Command has warned the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party against dragging making inciting comments about the police and also to stop playing politics with security issues.
The PDP had accused the Security agency of working with the All Progressives Congress, saying the opposition was planning to use the a security outfit to eliminate its key members.
The Media Director of the Nyesom Wike Campaign Organisation, Emma Okah at a media briefing in Port Harcourt, while urging the Inspector General of Police to disband the Security outfit, C4I, said: “We have uncovered a heinous and shameful conspiracy by the Rivers state government, the APC and the C4I to arm some young men who would thereafter be arrested, armed with the very weapon given to them, by the APC and the C41.
“After their arrest, false confessions will be taken from them in consonants with the orchestrated plan to the effect that the youths were armed by the President of Nigeria and the gubernatorial candidate of the PDP in Rivers state, Nyesom Wike.”
The Commissioner of Police, CP Dan Bature, in a statement, has however replied the PDP, saying: “The Rivers State Police Command is constrained to respond to allegations against C4I, an operational outfit of the Command by Bar. Emma Okah, Chairman, Media and Publicity Committee, Rivers State People Democratic Party Campaign (PDP) Organisation, to the effect that C4I in concert with another political party planned ‘to abduct, assassinate or frame and arrest leaders of the PDP in Rivers State and to generally orchestrate political violence, chaos and anarchy in Rivers State’.
“It is on record that C4I is a well-trained operational unit of the Command established since 2007 specifically to tackle the rising wave of violent crimes in the State.
“The unit is under the strict control and supervision of the Command’s Directorate of Operations and has recorded colossal successes in crime prevention and fighting in the State, particularly in terms of rescue of kidnapped victims, arrest of suspected vicious criminals, recovery of firearms/ammunition, stolen vehicles, illicit drugs and narcotics, feats which stands the unit out.
“As a matter fact, the Command as a responsible law enforcement agency or any of its units has no plan whatsoever to abduct, assassinate or frame and arrest leaders or members of any political party in Rivers State or to orchestrate political violence, chaos and anarchy in the State. Therefore, there is no iota of truth in the allegations
“The Commissioner of Police until now is not aware of the allegations. However, he has ordered for in-depth investigation on the allegations, please”.