Abuja based Non--Governmental Organisation, the Society for Rule of Law
in Nigeria (SRLN) has called for the removal of the Ekiti State
Commissioner of Police, Mr. Sotonye Wakama, describing him as “an agent
of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Dr Kayode Fayemi-led
government in the State.”
The group which said Mr Wakama had over
time, demonstrated his bias in support of the State government against
the people of the State, added that; “he (Wakama) can no longer
guarantee peace in the State because he has turned the Police in Ekiti State to an arm of Governor Fayemi’s political thugs.”
Rising
from its emergency meeting today, SRLN said in a release issued by its
Coordinator, Comrade Chima Ubeku that the last Thursday destruction of
the launching of Bibiire Coalition in Ado-Ekiti by the police, claiming
that the programme contravened Section 90 of the Electoral Act was
barbaric and animalistic, asking; “Which one is criminal and deserves
prompt intervention of the police between the thugs that Governor Fayemi
unleashed on the people that blocked roads in Ado-Ekiti while
brandishing dangerous weapons and supporters of Hon Opeyemi Bamidele
that were engaged in a peaceful rally?”
SRLN said; “As at today,
has Mr. Sotonye Wakama, the Governor Fayemi’s Commissioner of Police in
Ekiti State arrested any of those thugs, who blocked major roads in
Ado-Ekiti and were seen brandishing guns, cutlasses, knives, and other
dangerous weapons?
“Instead of arresting Fayemi’s thugs led by
Mr. Rotimi Olabiwonu (Mentilo), in the infinite wisdom of Mr Wakama, it
was Hon. Bamidele’s supporters that contravened no law of the land that
were arrested and detained.
“Presently, no fewer than 40
supporters of Hon Bamidele are being detained illegally in various
police cells in Ekiti State, while those thugs who disrupted the peace
of the State on Thursday are walking the street free. And what we are
being told by Wakama, who must be working for the millions of naira he
allegedly gets monthly from Fayemi is that it was more an offence to
hold political rally than to attack innocent people on the Streets of
Ado-Ekiti and prevent people from carrying out their business
activities.
“Most ridiculously, this same Wakama was alive when
Governor Fayemi brought musicians to Ado-Ekiti on three occasions to
rally support for his second term ambition. Then, obviously because Mr.
Wakama has turned the Ekiti State Police Command to an extension of
Fayemi’s government, those people who moved round Ado-Ekiti with vests
bearing ‘Fayemi 4 + 4 = 8’ did not contravened Section 90 of the
Electoral Act!
“It is therefore our demand that Mr Wakama should
be removed as the Ekiti State Commissioner of Police without further
delay, because as it appears, he is collaborating with Governor Fayemi
and his men to wage war against Ekiti people.
“Failure to do this
is a direct invitation to anarchy in Ekiti State as the people might be
pushed to such a state that they will begin to defend themselves
against Governor Fayemi’s thugs and the Wakama-led Police Command and
the result will be catastrophic.”
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