Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, CP Nnaghe Itam, has warned miscreants who would possibly wish to conceal underneath the deliberate August 1 nationwide protest in opposition to harship, to unleash terror within the state to drop their evil plots, assuring that the State Police Command has the capability to offer satisfactory safety within the state always.
Addressing journalists on the venue of a safety convention he organised for unit heads underneath the State Police Command, CP Itam acknowledged that no one or group had thus far notified the command that they’d stage or take part within the deliberate nationwide protest.
He, nonetheless, promised that his command wouldn’t cease any particular person or group of individuals from collaborating within the nationwide protest as long as the train can be peaceable.
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The state police boss reasonably acknowledged that he was becoming a member of his voice in interesting to these planning to stage the protest to drop the concept as a result of miscreants would possibly wish to seize the chance to trigger critical breakdown of regulation and order; interact in looting and different types of criminalities.
But when any group would insist on going forward to stage the protest, the Police boss acknowledged that the leaders of the group ought to come ahead to the state police command to determine themselves, the areas the place they’d converge, and different particulars that may allow the state police command present them with satisfactory safety in the course of the occasion.
“I wish to state clearly that the Police is remitted to manage assemblies and defend peaceable protesters who’re recognized in addition to their routes and or places of curiosity.
“The command wouldn’t tolerate any violence or any protest that threatens the delicate peace within the State.
“All I’m saying is that miscreants shouldn’t check our would possibly as a result of we’re prepared to ensure satisfactory safety to lives and correctly all over the place within the state,” CP Itam acknowledged.
Additionally, when contacted spokesperson of the State Police Command of the Nigeria Safety and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Superintendent of Corps Edwin Okadigbo confirmed that no group had approached the command to alert them that they’d take part within the deliberate protest.
He, nonetheless, acknowledged that the command had already put in place operational methods to make it possible for no nationwide asset or infrastructure had been attacked or vandalised by hoodlums.
In the meantime, when contacted, the chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) within the state, Comrade Humphrey Nwafor, acknowledged that the union and, certainly, its associates within the state weren’t a part of the deliberate nationwide protest, including that they’d not take part in it.
Checks by LEADERSHIP confirmed that no group of individuals or organisation was overtly displaying curiosity within the deliberate nationwide protest within the State.