NAPO Petitions Rivers CP Over Harassment

The acting National
President of the National Association of Plant Operators (NAPO), Comrade Harold I. Bestowe, has petitioned the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, CP Francis Mobolaji Odesanya over the continued harassment, threat and to unlawful arrest by officers of the command.
In a two page petition dated 15th August 2016 and addressed to the Commissioner of Police which was copied to the Inspector-General of Police, President of Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Department of State Security, State Command, Comrade Harold alleged that officers of the Area Command have been threatening to unlawfully arrest him.
According to him, the O’C Surveillance at the Area Command have been inviting him for an undisclosed meeting in his office with the intention to get him arrested and unlawfully detain him.
The petitioner urged the Commissioner of Police to intervene in the matter as well as investigate the activities of officers of the Area Command with a view to unravel their personal interest in the NAPO matter which according to him, was purely an industrial labour union issue.
He recalled that in May 2014 he received a similar invitation from the Police to appear at the State Criminal Investigation Bureau, (SIB) only for him to be arrested and detained on the orders of the officer-in-charge of the area as at that time.
The acting NAPO President also alleged that on the 12th of May, 2016 the DPO Eleme, one Amos adopted him for over eight hours while the union was on peaceful protest demanding for the payment of redundancy packages to their members who worked with Daewoo Nig. Limited DN64/ Indorama Eleme Petrochemical  and Fertilizer Company but was retrenched without benefit.