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Address:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
41, Miss Elems Street, Onitsha<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anambra State, Nigeria<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tuesday, Sept 26, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, PhD<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inspector General of Police<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IGP\u2019s Office, Force Headquarters<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Louis Edet House, Shehu Shagari Way<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Garki, Abuja, FCT, Nigeria<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Retired IGP Solomon Arase<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chairman of the Police Service Commission<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The PSC Corporate Headquarters<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Plot 64 Cadastral Zone B16, Sector Centre B<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jabi, FCT, Abuja, Nigeria<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dear PSC Chair\/IGP,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To Ensure Participatory, Free, Fair, Credible And Secured Nov 11, 2023 Imo Governorship Election: Time Has Come To Transfer Senior Police Officers In Imo State And Zone 9 Police Commands And Disarm And Demobilize The Imo State Government Ebubeagu Militias And Armed Others<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As it was the case in the 2023 National\/State Assembly Elections in Imo during which ward and local government result collation centers were strongly alleged to have been relocated to the Local Government chairmen\u2019s offices and other arenas under the violent grip of the present Government of Imo State, its political appointees and associates; the location of the above mentioned result collation centers for the Nov 11, 2023 Governorship Election in the State must be cited by the INEC in public schools or other public places outside the grip, control and dictation of the political appointees and \u201celected\u201d officials of the Government of Imo State and \u201celected\u201d or appointed federal officials from the State. Such result collation centers for the Nov 11, 2023 Governorship Election must be accessible to all the parties and their designated agents and place in the hands of neutral and impartial security agents and their commanders. IGP, Kayode Agbetokun, PhD, is therefore called upon to ensure that armed thugs and militias are not allowed access into such result collation centers. The delegated INEC officials and the Election Day police officers must also insist on carrying out their assignments in the presence of all the parties\/candidates and their agents and delegated security agents and agencies authorized by the IGP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As it was the case in the 2023 National\/State Assembly Elections in Imo State, the incumbent Government of the State and some compromised senior and junior staffs of INEC were strongly accused of harvesting \u2018magic election results\u2019 from most of the polling centers located in Local Government Areas\/Communities where the Commission declared unsafe and insecure for voting. As it was also strongly alleged, some corrupt and compromised INEC officials escorted by some criminal security agents drawn from police crack squads and military personnel and armed thugs and militias operating under their cover and protection had headed to some arenas under the influence of some top political appointees in the present Government of Imo State with result sheets where they were filled with fake results and indented as \u201cplaces where voting had taken place and results produced\u201d. Such sharp practices were alleged to have taken place in places like Okigwe, Orsu, Oru East, Oru West, Ihube, Aku, Ihitenansa, Orlu, etc. Intersociety <\/strong>hereby strongly calls on you, IGP Kayode Agbetokun, PhD to ensure delegated police personnel and their superiors as well as armed militias and thugs do not police or escort corrupt INEC officials to places declared by INEC on intelligence advice to be unsafe for voting in Imo on Nov 11, 2023 Governorship Election for purpose of harvesting fake results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n IGP Kayode Agbetokun is specially called upon to forensically monitor the operational activities of the commanders of the Imo State and Zone 9 Police Commands and others classified as \u201cIGP Tactical Squads\u201d stationed in the State. As it was severally reported weeks to the 2023 National\/State Assembly Elections in Imo State and on Election Day proper, several opposition parties\u2019 officials are routinely subjected to unlawful and politically motivated arrest and arbitrary detention (without charge and fair trial) and deliberately kept incommunicado till the Election Day or after the Election Day. Cases of similar unlawful arrest and incommunicado-detention involving \u201cstubborn electoral officers\u201d were also reported. In all of the above, strong accusing fingers are pointed against commanders of the police crack squads such as Anti Robbery, Anti Terrorism, Anti Cult, Anti Kidnapping, IRT-Tiger Base, the IGP crack squads, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Imo State Government officials including some serving Commissioners, Local Government Transition Chairmen, State Lawmakers and Federal Lawmakers and Ministers from the State must be forensically monitored by the Nigeria Police Force under IGP Kayode Agbetokun particularly a week or two to the Nov 11, 2023 Governorship Election and on Election Day so as to prevent them from converting Election Duty police personnel and their commanders and security and safety equipment in their possession into their private armies and armories. All of the above were reported to be the case during the 2023 National\/State Assembly Elections in the State; during which Election Duty police officers and their equipment such as Armored Personnel Carriers, patrol vans and arms were converted into private use by some political leaders of the State ruling APC including some of the present Principal Officers of the National Assembly from the State and present members of the Imo State House of Assembly. Some of the affected places included Nkwere, Mbaitolu, Obowo, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By the consequential effects of the Landmark Judgment of the Abakiliki Division of the Federal High Court in February 2023, following abduction and attempted murder in Nov 2022 of Hon Abia Onyeike, a former Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, the Imo State Government funded Ebubeagu Militias (Vigilante Group) are now an unlawful armed group and therefore must not be allowed any operational space during the Nov 11, 2023 Imo State Governorship Election. It is recalled that the Federal High Court sitting in Abakiliki had in Feb 2023 proscribed the Ebubeagu Vigilante Group in Ebonyi State for \u201cengaging in human rights abuses, extortions, illegal arrests and illegal use of firearms\u201d. By Section 287 (3) of the 1999 Constitution as amended, \u201cthe decisions of the Federal High Court or a State High Court, etc shall be enforced in any part of the Federation by all authorities and persons-and by other courts of law with subordinate jurisdiction to that of the Federal High Court\u2026\u201d. IGP Kayode Agbetokun, PhD, is hereby strongly called upon to ensure that the murderous Imo State Government funded Ebubeagu Militias (Vigilante Group) and allied others such as the hired Ex Niger Delta Militants, the \u201cOhaji Confraternity Cultists\u201d and other Government-linked Political Death Squads are not allowed access to all the poling units or ward, local government\/district and State result collation centers. They must also be disarmed and demobilized a week to the Election and made to remain same after the Nov 11, 2023 Imo Governorship Election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Signed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n For: International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law<\/p>\n\n\n\n Emeka Umeagbalasi, Board Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n (B.Sc. Criminology and Security Studies, M.Sc. Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chinwe Umeche Esquire (LL.B, BL)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Head, Democracy and Good Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Obianuju Joy Igboeli Esquire (LL.B, BL)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Head, Civil Liberties and Rule of Law<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chidinma Evangeline Udegbunam Esquire (LL.B, BL)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Head, Campaign and Publicity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Contacts: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Email: <\/strong>info@intersociety-ng.org<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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