Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Fayemi setting up state police, says Ekiti PDP


The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused Governor Kayode Fayemi of setting up a state police under the guise of converting the Vigilance Group to a peace corps, and appointing his aide, Mr Deji Adesokan, alias Jaruu, as the head of the group.

Adesokan is the Senior Special Assistant on Internal Security to Governor Fayemi.

Also, the PDP has called on the Force Headquarters to transfer the Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State Command, Mr. Sotonye Wakama, out of the state for allegedly failing to unravel a number of security issues in the state.

Addressing newsmen in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, the Director-General of Media and Communication of the PDP, Chief Gboyega Aribisogan, also accused Fayemi of using Adesokan to foment trouble in Ilasa-Ekiti and Egbe-Iro over traditional matters that did not concern the state government.

“We are alarmed at the security situation in the state. Today, people are afraid of moving freely on the streets of Ilasa and Egbe-Iro because the ruling government has decided to act in a manner that suggests that it has special interest in who becomes the regent of these two communities. The roles of the state government in the Egbe-Iro matter is least expected.

“Despite repeated calls to the state police command to call 'Jaruu' and his agents to order, the Ekiti State Police Commissioner seems to be enjoying the activities of these hoodlums.

The state police command in the last couple of months has been condoning the excesses of the agents of the state government. The state police command has turned itself into the security arm of the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria,” he said.

He listed cases of security breaches like the attacks on former Governor Ayo Fayose by ACN supporters, the killing of a student of the Ekiti State University by an aide of Fayemi, as some of the issues the police command had failed to resolve.

“The PDP is therefore calling on the Inspector-General of Police to invite CP Wakama for questioning over the incessant robbery operations in Ekiti State in the last eight days in Akannasan about two kilometers to the state police command headquarters.

The IG should ask the CP while no arrest has been made over the killing of the EKSU student when it was clear that the suggested killer is an aide of Governor Kayode Fayemi.

As the main opposition party in the state, who feel the brunt of the state police command, we call on the IGP to transfer Mr Wakama from Ekiti State in order to arrest violence in the coming days,” he stated.

In his reaction, Wakama, who spoke on the phone, said he really did not care about his transfer from Ekiti State, saying if his superiors said he should go, he would go.

He added that the police had no role in who becomes a regent of any particular town, saying their role was to maintain peace in the society.

The PDP also challenged Governor Fayemi to make public how he had spent the over N200 billion that had accrued to the state since the start of his administration.

Aribisogan also alleged that Fayemi changed the names of some housing projects executed by former Governors Fayose and Olusegun Oni, saying the governor should start his own projects and then name them after his party’s chieftains.

On a bill pending before the House of Assembly seeking to make the office of the governor pensionable, a situation that would only make Fayemi and Otunba Niyi Adebayo beneficiaries, the party called on the leadership of the Assembly to reject the bill.

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