NUT PROTEST : WIKE WARNS AGAINST POLITICISING INSECURITY. (PHOTO).

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 NUT Protest : Wike Warns Against Politicising Insecurity The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has warned against politicising insecurity amid protests by the Nigeria Union of Teachers, FCT wing, over the killing and abduction of school staff and children in Oyo State. Teachers stormed the FCTA Secretariat in Abuja to condemn the killing of Michael Oyedokun and to demand the release of abducted pupils and teachers from Community High School, Ahoro-Esinle in Oriire Local Government Area. The FCT minister addressed the protesters on Tuesday, saying the federal government is on its toes working to secure the rescue of the schoolchildren and their teachers. Wike urged protesters to avoid turning the tragedy into a political issue and to give security efforts time to produce results. Chairman of the union in the FCT, Mr Abdullahi Shafa, explained that the nationwide solidarity protest was to condemn the killing of the teacher and abduction of the school chil...

GOV. WIKE ADVOCATES AMENDMENT OF LAWS ESTABLISHING NIGERIA POLICE FORCE.{PHOTOS}.#PRESS RELEASE.

 

*Says #ENDSARS protest calls for true federalism
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has advocated an amendment of the Laws establishing the Nigeria Police Force to tackle current security challenges facing the country.
Governor Wike made the call while speaking on some national issues on a Live National Television Programme in Port Harcourt.
Governor Wike stated that such critical look at the enabling laws should be the starting point in achieving an enduring total reform of the Police.
"We are in a Federal System. Issues cannot be addressed by the Federal Government giving directives to State Governors.
"There is need for all stakeholders to look at the various laws establishing the Police to determine the roles of Councils, States and the Federal Government.
"We are at a point in our history that collective involvement is important. This is so because the nature of crime fighting today does not support a central command and control.
"We need to embrace the reality. Once the areas requiring amendment have been agreed, the National Assembly can now be involved," he said.
The Governor said the Federal Government is trivialising the demands by #EndSARS protesters by directing State Governors to take charge of Tactical Commands of the Police.
"State Governors cannot take charge of Tactical Commands because they cannot employ or discipline anyone who errs.
"In Rivers State, we set up a Judicial Commission of Inquiry that indicted SARS officers. Instead of the Police authorities punishing the indicted officers, they shielded them and even promoted one to the rank of an Assistant Inspector General.

"Now the Federal Government wants us to set up another Commission of Inquiry when the report of the last one we set up was not implemented," he stated.
Governor Wike stated that he acted on intelligence to ensure that #EndSARS protest In Port Harcourt was not hijacked by miscreants.
He said if he did not support it, he would not have addressed the protesters who are demanding a change in the way the Federal Government conducts the affairs of the country.
He reiterated his call for a total reform of the entire security agencies beginning with the Nigeria Police Force.
"From the beginning, we in Rivers state suffered in the hands of SARS operatives as they killed innocent people and made the State ungovernable.
"They even killed a polytechnic lecturer. We cried but they reduced it to politics. The Media tagged us Rivers of Blood when we had security issues.
"If we are sincere in this country, what affects one part of the country will be taken seriously by others. Unfortunately, we politicise everything.
"Let us practice true federalism. You cannot support community policing and say State Police will be controlled by Governors," he said.
Governor Wike noted with dismay the continued infraction of the nation's constitution by the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government.
He said the recent appointment of an aide to President Muhammadu Buhari as a national Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) violates the provisions of the Constitution.
Paulinus Nsirim
Commissioner for Information and Communications
October 16, 2020
Pictures:
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, speaking on some national issues on a Live National Television Programme in Port Harcourt.

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