The police officers ‘’work in partnership with the communities they
serve to maintain law and order, protect members of the public and their
property, prevent crime, reduce the fear of crime and improve the quality of
life for all citizens. They use a wide range of technology to protect
individuals, identify the perpetrators of crime and ensure successful
prosecutions against those who break the law.’’
However, the police officers
job are the opposite of the above; they are the ones that breach the laws of
the land, they are above the laws, they commit crime and covers it up, they are
the one used by the government to cause pain to the citizenry.
An adage says that ‘’an idle mind is a devil workshop’’ .How on earth would an Armed Policemen stormed a place where the newly-employed teachers who gathered (at a Stadium in Port Harcourt, Rivers State), to receive their deployment letters from the state government, and chased them away on a flimsy excused that ‘’ the police thought the teachers will protest against President Jonathan’’.
The teachers, numbering 13,000, were invited to the stadium by the state government to receive their letters of postings and to be addressed by the state Commissioner for Education, Alice Lawrence-Nemi.
Some of the teachers, who got to the stadium as early as 7.30am, were chased out by the police; others who got their late and tried to gain entrance into the stadium were stopped from entering the arena.
These innocent teachers were manhandled all because of lack of intelligence by the police who did not even try to find out the real reasons why the teachers were at the stadium
An adage says that ‘’an idle mind is a devil workshop’’ .How on earth would an Armed Policemen stormed a place where the newly-employed teachers who gathered (at a Stadium in Port Harcourt, Rivers State), to receive their deployment letters from the state government, and chased them away on a flimsy excused that ‘’ the police thought the teachers will protest against President Jonathan’’.
The teachers, numbering 13,000, were invited to the stadium by the state government to receive their letters of postings and to be addressed by the state Commissioner for Education, Alice Lawrence-Nemi.
Some of the teachers, who got to the stadium as early as 7.30am, were chased out by the police; others who got their late and tried to gain entrance into the stadium were stopped from entering the arena.
These innocent teachers were manhandled all because of lack of intelligence by the police who did not even try to find out the real reasons why the teachers were at the stadium
The police spokesman, Ahmad
Mohammad, said:“We got intelligence report that about 18,000 youths were
being mobilized to protest against a very important personality in the country.
You are aware that the ban on public procession in the state by the police is
still in force."Can you hear that?
Nigerian police are just a comedian,
with these statements; it shows that they don’t even know the scope of their
job. Can 18,000 un-employed or employed youth remove Goodluck Jonathan from
power in Abuja?The policemen, according to
sources, had thought that the newly recruited teachers were in the stadium for
a demonstration against President Jonathan, hence their decision to pounce on
the teachers.
One of the frustrated new employee commented that “My colleagues and I took the exam and we were successful. Now that the Ministry of Education invited us to come and collect our letters of posting, see what the police have done to frustrate us.”
Rivers State Commissioner of Information and Communications, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, described the action of the police as “impunity from retrogressive forces.”
She said, “Virtually, this is the impunity we have been talking about in Rivers State. It is clear to Rivers people that this is the action of retrogressive forces who are totally against development because it is the first time any government, whether state or federal, is employing 13,000 teachers at once.''
“These are people who have been unemployed. Nigeria is crying about unemployment, education system is in a mess and a government employs 13,000 teachers, trains them and wants to feed them into the system, and somebody chooses to treat this with levity and to tear gas the teachers and give a very stupid excuse, that the teachers were there to protest against President Jonathan.”
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