Anambra indigenes in Canada, UK, USA, Intersociety tackle CP over killing comment

By Tony Okafor, Awka

Anambra State Indigenes in the diaspora, especially in Canada, United Kingdom and United States, have condemned a comment attributed to the Commissioner of Police in the state, Aderemi Adeoye

The CP was reported to have instructed his officers that “if killing some is what it will take to protect Anambra State, so be it”.

Reacting to the development, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law ( Intersociety)who associated his views with the Anambra Indigenes in diaspora, described the CP’s comment as murderous.

In a statement on Thursday circulated to the press, the group said, “The attention of the leadership of the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law has been drawn by prominent Easterners living in the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and Europe regarding the ethnic cleansing and civilian murderous statement by the newly posted Commissioner of Police for Anambra State Command, CP Aderemi Adeoye.

“Intersociety hereby makes bold to say that CP Aderemi Adeoye has by the statement laid a fresh ground to massacre defenseless citizens of the state and wantonly destroy their properties.

“The new CP has also exposed his professional emptiness in matters of skillful, intelligence, detective, proactive and preventive policing and diligent and detailed criminal investigations.

‘It saddens our heart that when the securitization world is being ruled by digital policing including man-machine-mental crimes detection or tracking, intelligence and investigation; the new Anambra CP is speedily taking policing back to the yore or stone age.

“This is more so when Nigeria and its citizens are deeply divided along ethnic and religious lines. Not long ago in Lagos State, a State Resident Electoral Commissioner of the same geopolitical region where the new Anambra CP comes from, made the same ethnic cleansing and murderous comments targeting defenseless members of the Eastern Nigerian population resident in the state; most of whom had settled or lived in the state long before he was born or first conscripted into the department of the State Security Service as a sworn intake.

“It is on account of the foregoing that we at Intersociety are strongly calling for the immediate transfer or removal of CP Aderemi Adeoye from Anambra State Police Command as “Anambra CP”.

“This is more so when CP Adeoye has by statement revealed his plans to target and massacre defenseless citizens of the state and wantonly destroy their properties including burning down their ancestral homes. These, the new CP is most likely planning to do or perpetrate using class criminalization, false labeling and stigmatization.

“Granted that Monday sit-at-home is unnecessary and unwarranted but using the same by drafted security operatives and their chiefs from the military and policing establishments as a cover to wantonly destroy innocent and defenseless lives and properties must not be allowed and tolerated.”