Ohanaeze Cried Out, Knocks FG Over Promotions In Nigeria Police

Ohanaeze Ndigbo has knocked the Federal Government over recent promotion exercise carried out by the Nigerian Police Force.

News Rain Nigeria gathered that some aggrieved and concerned Igbo people have cried out over what they described as a marginalisation by the Police Service Commission (PSC), on its recent promotions of Police Officers in the Country.

A group known as the South East Professionals (ESP),  has bemoaned recent promotions made by the Police Service Commission (PSC), alleging that the zone was again treated unfavorably.

Ohanaeze Knocks FG 

The ESP under the umbrella  of Conference of Igbo Professionals Worldwide, through an open letter addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari,on Sunday morning, has called on President Buhari to look inwardly into the recent promotions done by the Police Service Commission.

Igbo Professionals Worldwide wrote President Buhari over the past recruitments, appointments, promotions and allocation of resources, of their region, noting that the region has been denied of its rightful place in the exercise carried out by the Commission.

Igbo Professionals in the letter dated 26th, December, 2020 and titled,Unfair Treatment of Ndigbo and Urgent Need to Right the Wrongs by Mr President “, maintained that the recent promotion of senior police officers, the South East was given one slot while some regions got over 12 slots.

According to the press release that was issued and signed to the development by the group’s National President, Prof. Patrick Kalu and National Secretary, Dr Uche Mbaka, respectively, called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to set up a panel with a view to unraveling circumstances leading to unfair treatment of Igbo race in the country.

The Igbos Professionals body also through the letter asked President Buhari to review the recent promotions of the police commission, saying, We wish to kindly draw your attention to the recent appointments made in the Nigeria Police Force by the Police Service Commission (PSC), under the chairmanship of the retired former Inspector General of Police, Musiliu Smith.

We call on you sir, to address the principle of federal character in the distribution of public resources and appointive positions, especially security chiefs.

” Also, we appeal to the National Assembly to immediately step in with a view to stopping these unfair treatments of Ndigbo in Nigeria. This it can do by first of all set up a committee to investigate the reason for these actions by the government. ”

According to the group, “Addressing the lopsided appointments of security chiefs is paramount due to increasing insecurity in the South East region.”

” We are threatened that given the current security architecture, a decision may be taken one day to eliminate all Igbo without their knowledge due to lack of representation,”it said.

Going further,the group said:”The unfair treatments against us have continued to increase daily. We call on you sir, to re-write the wrongs meted against the Igbo ethnic nationality by your administration.”

“Like our mother sociocultural body, Ohaneze Ndigbo had observed on the action of the Police Service Commission on the recent appointments in the Police, we hasten to condemn this repeated denial of people of Igbo extraction in major appointments in its entirety. We feel this is not fair to a region that is at the forefront of Nigeria’s unity,” the group stated.

News Rain Nigeria recalled that the Police Service Commission on Friday, December 18,2020, through resolution from its 10th plenary meeting with the promotion of 37 senior police officers to their next ranks.

The action according to the PSC by the commission is target to boost the morale of officers and men of the Force to serve their fatherland diligently and meritoriously.