JANUARY 19, 2012 BY FRIDAY OLOKOR, ABUJA
A civil rights group, Human Rights Writers Association, has demanded a systematic headcount of policemen by reputable security experts to fish out the bad eggs within the system.
The association also called for pragmatic reforms of the police to save the country from imminent doom and unprecedented violence.
In a statement on Wednesday by the Executive Chairman of HURIWA, Mr. Emmanuel Onwubiko, and Director of Media, Zainab Yusuf, the group called for the sacking and prosecution of the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim and Police Commissioner in the Force Headquatres, Mr. Zakari Biu, for the alleged criminal negligence and unprofessionalism that led to the escape of the suspect of the Christmas Day bomb attack on St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla in Niger State, Kabiru Sokoto.
The group said the prosecution of the two police chiefs by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke (SAN), would send the right signal that President Goodluck Jonathan was committed to fighting “organised violence” by the Boko Haram sect.
HURIWA said, “As a human rights platform, we smell a rat in this latest case of escape of this very strategic kingpin allegedly involved in the spate of bloody bomb explosions and hereby demand that President Jonathan should order transparent staff audit including forensic search of the criminal records of all serving police operatives to be done by security experts drawn from the United Nations, with the objective of fishing out and prosecuting all the bad eggs that have severely compromised our national security.”
Meanwhile, a pan Igbo socio-economic and political group Olu Ndi Igbo (Voice of the Igbo) has also called for the immediate resignation and prosecution of Ringim over the disappearance of the suspect.
In a release by its coordinator, Chris Nwandu, the group said it was amazed by the negligence and incompetence displayed by the police chief over the handling of the Boko Haram issues which have led to the death of several innocent Nigerians, especially Igbo in the northern part of the country.
SOURCE: Punch Newspaper, 19 January 2012. http://www.punchontheweb.com/
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