Opinion Leader Wants CP To Visit Rivers Community

Sequel to the forceful eviction of officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force by suspected cultists at Omerelu Police Station in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State an opinion leader, Chief Geoffrey Amadi, has called on the Rivers State Police Commissioner, Mr Joseph Mukan to visit the community and do the needful.
The opinion leader who spoke with The Tide in Omerelu on Monday, said the area had become calm for the Police men to reoccupy their station.
 Amadi,  expressed regret that the police could capitulate and abscond when the area was in crisis.
The community leader  who was reacting to the Inspector General of Police, Mr Muhammad Adamu’s call on vigilante groups to surrender arms, said there should be plans to retrain the vigilante groups instead of demanding for  arm surrender.
According to him, since the vigilante groups are able to wage war against suspected cultists any move to disarm them will amount to resurgence of crime and criminality.
“When we had security challenge in Omerelu, the police there abandoned us to our fate. We managed to wriggle out ourselves by God’s grace.Now that the area is peaceful,  I think, the Police can now return”, he said.
He  aslo advised  the    IGP to do more home work before finalising on the issue of arm surrender by vigilante groups.
He charged not to concentrate on township policing, but should take sometime off to the rural areas, in order to take personal inventory of the security situation.
Though he explained that he was not fussing the duties cum functions of the Divisional Police Officers with that of the CP, but want the Police, the Rivers State Police boss, to  at least, see it  as an oversight function.
“ Security reports and findings are but best for first hand information. If the CP visits our local areas, I believe he will have better information and report to feed the IGP”, he added.
The Chief also admitted the poor condition of the Police Station, but promised to mobilise for sanitation of the place, once the police indicated interest to return.
The Tide gathered that Omerelu Police Station had become a semi-forest since the police abandoned the place during the era of suspected cult battle in the community.

By:  King Onunwor