A rights activist, Comrade Waheed Saka has demanded genuine and unreserved apology from the Acting Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris for raising a false alarm against his predecessor, Mr. Solomon Arase who was alleged of carting away 24 security vehicles belonging to Nigeria Police Force on retirement.
The human rights crusader who described as derogatory a statement credited to the police boss, saying the false alarm is in bad taste towards the real perspection of the administrative system of Nigeria Police Force.
It would be recalled that Mr. Idris had on the assumption of office accused the immediate past IGP Solomon Arase for allegedly carting away 24 cars belonging to the Force.
Comrade Saka, who is the Secretary General of Committee for Democracy and Rights of the People (CDRP), sought for the apology at a Roundtable Discussion purposefully organized by the group to review the anti-graft war of the present administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari in Osogbo, the capital of Osun state.
The activist frowned at what he considered a high wired blackmail by Mr Idris to destroy the legacy of Mr Arase.
According to him, “It is very unfortunate that number one police officer in the country will fail to read his hand over notes thereby committed a national faux pas against his illustrious predecessor and misled over 150 million citizens.
“It is incontrovertible that Mr Idris’ false alarm shows that he is not going to be diligent enough in unraveling many cases of corruption and high profile murder in the land.
“For this grave misleading, President Buhari must not allow this to pass without the current IGP apologizing to Mr. Arase personally and Nigerians for instigating and inciting the people falsely and wrongfully”
Saka also commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s strongwill to pursue his electoral campaign promises of fighting corruption to standstill even in the face of the socioeconomic, political and religious crises facing the country.
He therefore admonished the presidency and the anti-corruption agencies to further exploring constitutional instruments capable of strengthening corruption free society desired by all.
“Our anti-graft agencies need extreme freedom and liberty so as for them to be more proactive and consistent in cleansing all forms of corruption and other social vices in our country.
“No efforts should be spared by the presidency to further improve its ability to trace, identify, investigate and prosecute corrupt suspects.
“Likewise, the ongoing anti-corruption effort should be pursued as not only a matter of law enforcement but also of prevention because it is only through effective assets recovery that our nation can deny corrupt individuals from enjoying proceeds of their crime and serve as a deterrent to others.
“Fight against corruption, economic backdrop, insurgency, kidnapping and other anti-human vices remain the duty that we all owe our nation”, he posited.
