Campaign Organisation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has said with the emergence
of Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) as the President-elect, there
will be no police brutality and molestation in the state.
Amaechi, who called on the people of the state to vote the All
Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, in
the April 11, 2015, election, assured voters that any police that
harassed them would be punished.
Speaking during a ward-to-ward campaign in Emohua and Ikwerre Local
Government Areas on Saturday, the governor urged the electorate not to
be afraid to come out and vote.
"Next week Saturday, I expect everybody to come out and vote. There
will be no police molestation again. There will be no Army harassment
again. Any police that molests you must be preparing to retire and
this time, it will not be retirement, it will be punishment for
retirement. So, come out to vote. We are looking for you to come out
to vote.
"The reason why I am running from ward to ward is to encourage you to
come out because after what the police and the Army did last time,
everybody will be afraid to come out. Saturday, we should all come out
to vote and as your governor, I urge you to vote for APC," he said.
Amaechi emphasised that his administration would set up a commission
of enquiry to look into election-related deaths in the state during
the March 28, 2015 presidential election, adding that those found
guilty would be punished according to the law.
He said, "We have agreed to set up a commission of enquiry to
investigate all the killings so far. So, all those people who killed,
we shall punish them. Whether they like it or not, they must account
for everybody they killed.
"For the police, we believe that by now, they must have learnt their
lesson. We believe that by now, they must have known that they were
politicians and not Nigerian police. This Saturday, we expect them to
be Nigerian police and not Nigerian politicians.
--PUNCH
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