Following the appointment of Usman Alkali Baba as the new acting Inspector General of Police by President Muhammadu Buhari, the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohaneze ndigbo has condemned the repetition of a northern appointee for the position of IGP.
Recall that President Buhari had on February 4, extended the tenure of his predecessor IGP Mohammed Adamu for three months from which he spent just two months and three days of the extension in office before the sudden and seemingly unexpected change of events.
The announcement came on Tuesday at about the same time Mohammed Adamu, was in Owerri, Capital of Imo State, to assess the extent of damage caused by Imo jailbreak in the early hours of Monday, April 5 when unknown gunmen attacked Owerri Prisons and Imo State police command headquarters, freeing inmates and razing vehicles in the command premises.
Reacting to the appointment, the Ohaneze group argued that the injustice of the Federal Government was responsible for the growing agitations and insecurity in the South-East.
Speaking on behalf of the group, Chief Alex Ogbonnia, Ohanaeze National Publicity Secretary made this statement in an interview. He said it was most unfortunate that the President had chosen to sideline the people of the South-East in his recent appointment of service chiefs and now in the appointment of an IGP.
Chief Alex said: “It is unjust and unfair to sideline the South-East in the security architecture of the country. Injustice promotes insecurity; it promotes all forms of crisis and problems. With injustice, there is no peace anywhere.
“What is happening in South-East today in form of agitations is as a result of injustice. So, we the elders are put in a great dilemma because the younger generation is attacking us and we have been telling them to hold on believing that the president would have a change of mind.
“We thought that the president would be concerned about the level of injustice, agitations and crisis we have in the South-East and would try to ameliorate these things but unfortunately, he is not thinking towards that direction. It is most unfortunate and Ohanaeze will come up with a stronger statement.”
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