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The leadership of Committee for the Defence of Human Right, CDHR, in Southern Nigeria, under the National Vice President, Prince Taiga, has handed a Seven Days Ultimatum to the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to reverse the transfer of about 62 senior officers from the south to the northern part of the country.
CDHR also threatened to challenge the transfer in court.
It was gathered that about 62 officers within the ranks of chief superintendents of police and superintendents of police were affected in the Delta Police Command.
The National Vice President of the CDHR, Dr Prince Taiga, said the redeployment of DPOs and other heads of police units mostly of southern extraction to northern part of the country was questionable and unconstitutional.
“We don’t understand what the IGP is trying to do, is he trying to bring in Boko-Haram or herdsmen to the South-South?
“We have not witnessed anything like this for the past 20 years. This is one-sided transfer. The officers that were transferred were basically from the southern, eastern and western part of the country. The transfer did not cut across the six zones and that transfer was made based on self interest.
“We are not against redeployment but anything worth doing should be well done. This redeployment is unacceptable. It is one-sided. IGP should make the redeployment cut across the six geo-political zone.
“We are giving the Inspector General of Police, Muhammad Adamu, seven days to reverse the transfer or there will be mass protest.”
The State Commissioner of Police, Hafiz Inuwa ‘confirmed’ the transfer but refused further comment.
