By Ochuko Akuopha

OLEH-A group, Foundation for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusade, FHRAC, has faulted the Federal Government’s move to embark on massive redeployment of police officers from the northern part of the county to the Niger Delta region, describing same as suspicious and an abuse of constitutional democracy.

The group, in a statement, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to reconsider its decision and allow the police authorities to conduct their activities in a manner that can serve the best interest of the country in accordance with dictates of the extant laws.

Noting that the Nigerian constitution never envisaged one region or ethnic group to dominate the others in terms of public governance, the group, in the statement by its National President, Cleric Alaowei, said: “The bare faced insinuation by the Federal Government that the police officers in the region have compromised their positions to be working with militants is a ploy to pull wool over people’s eyes.

“That is just an excuse that has underground agenda which is only known to the initiators. We see no justification in that flimsy excuse which lacked all material substances. If any security officer compromises his sacred duty by romancing with criminals, the government should not waste time in unleashing the full wrath of the law against such person.

“When news of military personnel’s complicity in the fight against Boko Haram in the North East broke out, the army authorities disciplined those culpable officers. The Jonathan government did not take excuse with the series of those incidents to flood the North with Southern officers.”

“President Buhari should not create unnecessary tension in the country. Nigeria is a secular state and must be ruled in that regard. There has never been a time a decision like this was ever taken not even during Yar’Adua’s tenure when the region was a hotbed of militants’ activities.”