The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Police Affairs to investigate the curious transfer of eight police commissioners to the Bayelsa State Command in three months.
\nThe House presided over by its Speaker, the Rt. Honourable Yakubu Dogara, directed the Committee on Police Affairs to report its findings to the House\u00a0in two weeks.
\nThe decision of the House followed a motion under urgent public importance by the member representing the Yenagoa\/Kolokuma\/Opokuma Constituency of Bayelsa, Hon. Douye Diri, which called the attention of the House to the erratic posting of police commissioners to Bayelsa State in the last three months.
\nThe motion with the title, \u2018Need to curb insecurity in Bayelsa State through erratic deployment of Commissioners \u00f2f Police to the State\u2019 was supported by Honorable Fred Agbedi, Henry Daniel-Ofongo, Sodaguwo Festus-Omoni and Foingha Jephta who are members of the Bayelsa Cacus in the House.
\nDiri urged the House to \u201cmandate its Committee on Police Affairs to investigate the motive behind the erratic deployment of eight commissioners of police to Bayelsa State in the last three months and to report back to the house within two weeks for legislative action.\u201d
\nDiri expressed deep worry that the frequent transfer of police commissioners to Bayelsa which he put at an average of a police commissioner every ten days, had created growing apprehension in the citizenry which could lead to break down of law ahead of the 2019 general elections.
\nHe argued in the motion that the instability in the police leadership over the months had made it impossible for the state Governor, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, to develop lasting synergy with them to ensure peace and tranquility in the state.
\nDiri and those who supported the motion are worried that the \u201ceccentric conduct\u201d had persisted in spite of the reservations expressed on the matter by the Governor, government and people of Bayelsa State.
\nThe lawmakers argued that \u201cconsistency is important in building trust, bridging the gap between the police and citizens to ensure effective and efficient operations of the police.\u201d
\nThe motion which was moved on the floor of the House on Wednesday was unanimously adopted and the Committee on Police Affairs mandated to probe the disturbing transfer of police commissioners to Bayelsa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Police Affairs to investigate the curious transfer of eight police commissioners to the Bayelsa State Command in three months. The House presided over by its Speaker, the Rt. Honourable Yakubu Dogara, directed the Committee on Police Affairs to report its findings to the House\u00a0in two weeks. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}