The Inspector-General of Police (IG), Usman Baba Alkali, and the Director General of Directorate of State Security (DSS), Mr Yusuf Magaji Bichi, have been asked to step down following their inability to arrest and prosecute the All Progressives Congress (APC) alleged chief thug in Lagos State, MC Oluwo for his incitement and threat against Ndigbo during the just concluded elections.
The Campaign for Democracy (CD) in South East and the Human Rights, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders’Foundation (HURIDE) in a joint statement in FCT Abuja, the Nigerian capital said that the two top security chiefs failed in their duties to arrest and prosecute Oluwo for ethnic profiling.
In the statement signed by Dede Uzor A.Uzor, the groups said that it was obvious that the two security chiefs lacked either the capacity, competence and patriotism to remain the top security chiefs in the country or they were more loyal to APC, their ethnic origin that they cannot do the right thing.
The groups said the two top security Chiefs, therefore lacked legitimacy and moral standing to remain in office after they ignored the call to arrest MC Oluwo and his cohorts in Lagos State and other parts of the country where hoodlums were allowed free reign to intimidate, manhandle and maim innocent Nigerians who wanted to exercise their political franchise.
The groups decried the growing weakness of our institutions largely caused by the low quality of personnel that head those institutions, stressing that in other climes Olumo and his partners in crime would have been languishing in jail by now.
They said that his brother Gen. Adeyinka’s grandson whose stock in trade was profiling Ndigbo and incitement against them is now cooling off in British jail.
In this country, CD/HURIDE said he would have been walking a free man because of rotten institutions in the country.
Consequently, we unequivocally condemned the ongoing burning and destruction of Igbo’s business interests across logos and called all Igbos to defend themselves and protect their business in the state
CD/HURIDE has decried grave weakness of the alarm raised by DSS but blatantly failed to arrest those who threatened the existence of the Nation by publicly inciting and profiling the Igbo Nation during the just concluded governorship election if at all the DSS and IGP were serious about their assigned statutory mandate of protecting lives and properties of Nigerians, Dede Uzor fumed.
