(http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/thumbnail.php?file=Okorocha___IGP__1__603767882.jpg&size=article_medium) Okorocha and Abubakar... yesterday. Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha yesterday urged the police to create a conducive environment for the people to operate without fear.
Okorocha spoke when he received the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Abubakar at the Government House, Owerri.
He commended thePolice for bracing up to the challenge of securing the lives and property of the people of the nation.
Okorocha decried the poor living conditions of the officers and men of the force and advised that the authorities should liaise with the state governments in the 36 states of the federation on ways of improving their infrastructures in different states.
He enjoined the police authority to assist the Imo State government in its mission of establishing a fourth-tier government by re-invigorating the community policing services of the force.
The governor asked the IGP to grant the state government the approval to relocate the Imo State Police Command to a more spacious and befitting site.
Okorocha urged the police boss to re-introduce discipline and accountability in the rank and file of the service and also to adopt effective ways of appreciating efficient and gallant policemen and women.
Abubakar said he came to Imo to re-evaluate the security situation in Imo, especially on the challenges of armed robbery and kidnapping. He thanked the Imo State government for its numerous assistance to the force and pledged the reciprocation of such gesture by the police through effective security services.
National Security Adviser (NSA) Gen. Owoye Azazi acted honourably to have laid the blame of the Boko Haram insurgency on the refusal of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to adhere to agreed zoning formular within the party, Speaker Ekiti State House of Assembly Adewale Omirin has said.
Omirin commended Gen. Azazi for “choosing to rise above common foible of extenuation at a critical times.”
The speaker, who spoke with reporters in his office in Ado-Ekiti, condemned the outrage over Gen. Azazi’s statement.
He said: “Nigeria is where it is today because the culture of saying the truth is being generally derided.
“Azazi is an insider in PDP today and he knew that non-adherence to the Peoples Democratic Party’s zoning formula has been responsible for the Boko Haram insurgency in the country.
“The NSA is an insider in the PDP and he knows its workings. So, this open statement cannot be treated with kid gloves.
“It will be difficult to divulge this Boko Haram malaise from the way the PDP flouted the zoning formula.”
The speaker urged President Goodluck Jonathan to invite the sect to a round-table talk, just the same way the late President Umar Yar’adua reined in the Niger Delta militants with the amnesty programme.
Omirin berated the president for reducing the bloodletting to mere political juggling by saying it would soon become history.
He said: “How can the president say it will soon become history when every attempt at solution has failed.”
The Primate of the Anglican Communion, Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, has accused leaders and politicians from the South of being indifferent to the killings of people in the North.
The primate spoke in Onitsha, Anambra State, during the dedication of the Episcopal House of the Diocese on the Niger.
He urged that Southern leaders should engage their counterparts in the North in deliberations that will define their mutual coexistence as a people and put an end to the provocative and unwarranted killings of innocent Christians.
The cleric charged the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, to call the Boko Haram sect to order.
He said: “Although Alhaji Sultan had maintained that Boko Haram members do not obey his command, he can do more than merely condemning the attacks. He should disclose the identity of the sect members, they are known among them, even those opting to negotiate with the Federal Government on their behalf should be asked to unveil the identities of the killers before it becomes a full blown religious war.”
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