Some police inspectors and rank and file
from the Imo State Police Command have threatened to go on strike over
their redeployment to some violence-prone states in the North.
The aggrieved policemen who met in Benin, the Edo State capital, said they would....
start the strike in November.
But the Force headquarters has said that
the redeployment will not be revisited or changed and warned the
affected officers against blackmailing the police authorities.
The Force Public Relations Officer,
Frank Mba, who was reacting to the threat of a strike by some policemen
in Imo State Police Command, said that the Nigeria Police Force was a
national organisation where police personnel could be deployed to serve
in any part of the country.
Mba, who spoke over the phone on
Wednesday, described the reported threat by the policemen as a rumour,
adding that the same rumour was peddled when some policemen were
transferred out of Lagos.
Some policemen that were redeployed to
some northern states had threatened to embark on strike in November if
their demands were not addressed.
They were demanding the reversion of the
mass transfer of officers numbering about 100 from the cadre of
Inspectors, Assistant Superintendent of Police and the Chief
Superintendent of Police to the troubled areas in the North.
The officers alleged that their transfer
which they described as punitive, was masterminded by the Imo State
Commissioner of Police, Mr. Muhammad Katsina, adding that some of them
had stagnated on a rank for many years without promotion.
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......and they don't go on strike when they kill innocent Nigerians.
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