Amaechi Is Raising A False Alarm – Rivers CP

Dan Bature, the commissioner of the Rivers
State Police Command, has reacted to a
statement made by Governor Rotimi Amaechi
that the police were exposing Dakuku Peterside,
the governorship candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, to assassination.
Dan Bature
According to Bature, Amaechi was raising a false
alarm against the police because of their refusal to
grant the state government’s request to release
criminals involved in cases of murder.
In a statement issued on March 18 in Port Harcourt,
Bature described Amaechi’s allegations as “spurious
and wispy”.
“The Rivers State Police Command is once again
constrained to respond to the spurious and wispy
allegations against it and the false alarm raised by
His Excellency, Rt Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, the
Executive Governor of Rivers State, to the effect that
the Command exposes Hon. Dakuku Peterside to
danger by withdrawing policemen attached to him,
and unsubstantiated killings and plan to arrest
supporters of his party.
“It is strongly believed that the vituperations are
frustrating signs of the government’s inability to
pressure the Command to release hardened
criminals involved in heinous cases of murder,
deadly cult activities, unlawful firearms possession,
kidnappings and sundry acts of lawlessness that
ordinarily would have been charged to court, but for
the industrial action of the Rivers State Judiciary.”
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Commenting on the recent redeployment of C4i
policemen from Dakuku Peterside, Bature said that
the C4i unit was replaced by the elite Special
Protection Unit. The comissioner added that the C4i
unit was redeployed to their traditional duties of
fighting violent crimes.
He also disagreed with Amaechi’s statement that
APC supporters were politically harassed and killed
in the state.
“Cases of cultists-related clashes that sometime
resulted in deaths have suddenly been attributed to
killing of political party supporters. The alleged
killing of seven supporters of a political party is not
only unfounded as the Command has not received
such report.
“What a mathematical wonder! Six suspects arrested
and charged to court for unlawful possessions of
firearms have now become over 400 supporters of a
political party in our custody.
“The allegation of the purported plan to arrest 307
leaders of a political party is nothing but a ruse to
whip up public sympathy. The Command has no
plan to arbitrarily arrest anybody. Anyone who is
not planning to cause or foster violence or breach
public peace has no cause to fear or raise false
alarm.”
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Reacting to the Bature’s statement, Ibim Semenitari,
the APC commissioner for information and
communications, said that Bature was being
economical with the truth. According to Semenitari,
Amaechi could not support the request that
criminals should be released from police custody.
“Amaechi refused to support amnesty programme
because he was not in support of pampering people
who have committed crimes. The whole world
knows that Amaechi does not condone crime,” he
added.
Recently, speaking at a news conference in Port
Harcourt, Governor Amaechi announced that 30
members of the APC had been killed and added
that the police had failed to arrest anyone in
connection with the crimes.