A CASE OF UNWARANTED AND SENSELESS ATTACKS ON CPC SUPPORTERS AND PROPERTIES IN KEBBI STATE.
This advertorial is a summary of save our soul letter dated 28th Jan. 2011 signed by Alh. Suleiman Nasiha, as the state chairman of congress for progressive change, Kebbi state, addressed to the Inspector general of police.
The title of that is CONSPIRACY TO INJURE, MALICIOUS DESTRUCTION OF OUR PROPERTY, INTIMIDATIONS AND ACTS LIKELY TO PROVOKE VIOLENT REACTION.
The question pressed on is whether in Kebbi state the police are actually the Nigerian police or are they the private guards of the Governor of Kebbi state, because of the “steady onslaught” in whatever manner from the Governor in the state, on members of congress for progressive change and their property. with the active support of the commissioner of police, Kebbi state.
In Kebbi state the governor out of desperation to salvage his battered and irredeemable sinking ship of the administration, having lost touch with the intelligent people of Kebbi state have like a man at the edge of a cliff of his political life, hanging precariously on only one arm (the bureaucracy and its coercive power) is frantically and blindly too, attacking the supporters of CPC, properties of CPC as a party and those belonging to its teeming supporters in the state.
It has become operation, code named by them, “physically remove CPC”. No CPC bill board or that of its supporters is allowed to exist anywhere in Kebbi state. This is in spite of the fact that these spaces have been paid for by the party or it’s members and there erection dully approved and supervised by the Kebbi state urban development authority.
At the onset of campaign for elective offices last year, aspirants on the platform of our party paid various sums of money to the Kebbi state urban development authority ranging from N1.5 million to N750,000 to erect their campaign Billboards in Kebbi state. The erection of the billboards were supervised by the authority and placed at locations decided by them.
The governor, suddenly felt these candidates and their party are becoming too popular and engaged the services of the state commissioner of police with supervision of the chief security officer to the governor and had these billboards not only pulled down but also destroyed despite payment s for them and approval given as evidenced by the receipts for N1, 500, 000 and N750, 000 (acknowledged) by KUDA as shown in the attachments.
To achieve all these unwholesome, uncivilized, undemocratic and lawless acts by the Governor, he finds willing tools in the commissioner of police Kebbi state, who in ostrich like manner, prefers to bury his head in the sand while the Governor’s henchman, the chief security officer, prowls the state unstrained by law and conscience with single minded enthusiasm, any way, with the overt support of the commissioner of police who supplied the truck load of police officers to execute the operations in answer to the call by their master. The Chief security officer to the governor was the “foreman” in this echo from a fascist era.
The result? Only billboards belonging to the Governor and members of Peoples Democratic Party are left standing while those of the CPC Governorship candidate Alh Abubakar Malam, Senator Adamu Aliero and Senator Abubakar Argungu were pulled down.
This, of course, was after they had paid a total of N3, 750, 000 to Kebbi state urban development authority that approved their application to erect the billboards and actually dictated where they were erected as against the places preferred by the contestants. Yet , our very honourable Commissioner of police provided a truck load of policemen to the chief security officer of the governor of Kebbi state who went round dismantling and destroying the billboards in a manner only political thugs would behave, just because they had the approval of the honourable Commissioner of police of Kebbi state.
It is in view of this we ask, ‘is the Nigerian police force, Kebbi state command the private guard of the governor of Kebbi state?
Signed
State PRO
CPC KEBBI STATE