Rivers PDP worries over military orderlies attacked to Abe

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(Nigeria) The Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed shocked that despite the subsisting police order withdrawing and cancelling attachment of officers of Counter Terrorism Unit, CTU, to private individuals and politicians, Mr. Magnus Abe, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC for Rivers South/East district still parades hundreds of officers of CTU and soldiers as orderlies.

State chairman, Mr Felix Obuah in a statement on Sunday, decried the amazing and intimidating number of anti-terrorism men and military personnel personally attached to Abe, the APC Senatorial candidate for Rivers South/East district.
He said, “More worrisome, the PDP regretted, is the insinuation and rumours being peddled by same APC that the state is insecure yet such number of specially trained security operatives popularly called “Red cap” that ought to be deployed for the greater surveillance and protection of lives and public property across the State are attached to one single individual.
“This is indicting and evidently dwarfs all claims of seriousness and impartiality on the part of the Nigeria police under whose watch and authorization such illegality and misapplication of national resources and indeed, the tax payers’ money are permitted to continue unchecked.
“The PDP believes this is not only wrong but also amounts to dereliction of duty on the side of our national security and should be investigated to correct the created impression of complicity with those in authority.
“Besides creating the false impression of insecurity in the land, moving around with such siren blaring anti-terrorism team largely from CTU, Base 3, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, the people and residents in the state are by this senseless act intimidated and frightened away from their legitimate businesses, the consequences of which are very obvious.
“While we do not oppose any personal undertaking by anybody for self-protection irrespective of where it is noted, we make bold to say that attaching this number of police officers from the CTU and military personnel funded from public coffers to one single individual that is not the President nor Governor, is an unnecessary waste and display of arrogance and particularly suspect.
“We insist the reason for this aberration must be investigated and explanations given to the Nigerian people except the concerned and relevant authorities are saying some people are bigger than the law of the land.”
The PDP stated that only officers from the Special Protection Unit, SPU, were constitutionally allowed to be attached to individuals for protection and not officers of the CTU.
The PDP also condemned the embarrassing invasion of a burial ceremony in Kaani, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State by hundreds of Officers of CTU and military personnel who are orderlies of Abe.

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