The days of impunity are gone

Harass civilians, prepare for retirement, Amaechi tells
police
APRIL 6, 2015 : CHUKWUDI AKASIKE
The Rivers State Governor and the Director-General of the
Buhari Campaign Organisation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has
said with the emergence of Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
(retd.) as the President-elect, there will be no police brutality
and molestation in the state.
Amaechi, who called on the people of the state to vote the
All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Dr.
Dakuku Peterside, in the April 11, 2015, election, assured
voters that any police that harassed them would be
punished.
Speaking during a ward-to-ward campaign in Emohua and
Ikwerre Local Government Areas on Saturday, the governor
urged the electorate not to be afraid to come out and vote.
“Next week Saturday, I expect everybody to come out and
vote. There will be no police molestation again. There will
be no Army harassment again. Any police that molests you
must be preparing to retire and this time, it will not be
retirement, it will be punishment for retirement. So, come
out to vote. We are looking for you to come out to vote.
“The reason why I am running from ward to ward is to
encourage you to come out because after what the police
and the Army did last time, everybody will be afraid to come
out. Saturday, we should all come out to vote and as your
governor, I urge you to vote for APC,” he said.
Amaechi emphasised that his administration would set up a
commission of enquiry to look into election-related deaths
in the state during the March 28, 2015 presidential election,
adding that those found guilty would be punished according
to the law.
He said, “We have agreed to set up a commission of
enquiry to investigate all the killings so far. So, all those
people who killed, we shall punish them. Whether they like
it or not, they must account for everybody they killed.
“For the police, we believe that by now, they must have
learnt their lesson. We believe that by now, they must have
known that they were politicians and not Nigerian police.
This Saturday, we expect them to be Nigerian police and
not Nigerian politicians.”