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The Governor Of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, has advised the new Commissioner of Police posted to the State, Olugbenga Adepoju to shun any midnight meetings that would make him declare war on Rivers people.
He urged the CP to focus on the interest of the people of the state and ensure peace and stability prevail.
Fubara gave the advice when he received CP Olugbenga Adepoju, the 47th Commissioner of Police, Rivers State Command, on a courtesy visit at the Government House in Port Harcourt on Friday.
The governor said, “You are not a new person in our state. You’ve been here, more especially, in charge of Operations. It then means if I start to talk about my story, it’ll connect with your activities in operations. But I am not going to talk about my story.
“But the good thing here is that you said something that I want to anchor on. Your duty, as it stands now, is to work with the government and work with other sister agencies to maintain law and order and protect the lives and property of the people of Rivers State.
“Be apolitical, as you just read in your address. Don’t go to nocturnal meetings in people’s houses, and in the morning, you come and declare war on Rivers people. That is the only advice I will give to you.”
Fubara advised the CP to come up with a holistic plan on how to tackle the twin problem of cultism among the youths and kidnapping incidences in boundary communities.
Governor Fubara said his administration is not failing in its responsibilities to security agencies to sufficiently address those issues and save Rivers people, adding, “But the primary duty of this team is that these particular challenges are rested on the police. So, please, take this one as my assignment (to you).
“While you are carrying out the larger assignment that your people from headquarters will send you, also make sure that you look for every way possible to reduce issues of cultism because it is affecting our secondary schools, it is affecting our primary schools with students growing to become monsters, which is also leading to other issues like kidnapping and others.Tap Here for the Full Story
“It starts from somewhere. So, we must also get to the root and reduce it. I know we cannot eliminate it, but, somehow, let us look for a way to reduce it.”
