Dep Speaker Condemns Police Disruption Of Teachers’ Meeting

Deputy Speaker of the
Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Leyii Kwanee, has described last Wednesday’s disruption of a meeting of newly employed teachers as “fascist and a display of totalitarianism.”
The State Police Command had dispersed newly recruited teachers in the state, who had assembled in the Port Harcourt Liberation Stadium to pick up their appointment letters following their employment by the State Government.
Speaking through his media assistant from Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.A., where he had gone to attend the unveiling ceremony of Rivers State as the World Book Centre, Kwanee said the action of the police amounted to partisanship taken too far.
While condemning the action of the State Police Commissioner, Joseph Mbu, the Deputy Speaker noted that by this and similar actions, the State Police boss had turned Rivers State to a Police State with the sole purpose of doing everything possible “to frustrate Governor Amaechi’s administration.”
He noted that the gathering of the teachers was a development programme that had nothing to do with the lingering PDP crisis in the state.
Hon. Kwanee also recalled that the Felix Obuah-led PDP in the state had been organising political rallies without being dispersed by the police, even when such rallies were in contradiction of the regulations of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Sometimes, he said, such rallies were capable of breaching the peace given the volatile situation in the state.
He thus called on well-meaning Nigerians to condemn the development, noting that it was gradually sliding the state to anarchy.