Corpers,IYLN DG NYSC Welfare Begs President Buhari To Deploy Soldiers To Ogun For Guber Poll
The Corper who spoke with the newsmen, which stated that its demand for military deployment was to check planned violence, also urged acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu to investigate and arrest the hoodlums behind the killing of a police Officer name "Sunday" along Ipokia to Ilaro road.
A serving corps member in Ogun state, Tunde Bright Olorungbotemi made the calls while speaking with reporters in Sango Ota,
Bright disclosed that the Nysc members in Ogun state was in possession of intelligence reports that violence would be unleashed by hoodlums in the full glare of top police officers, who had been issued a directive not to take any action.
According to him, the deployment of soldiers also became imperative in the face of political violence which marred last Saturday’s Presidential and the National Assembly elections, in which a police corporal was shot dead in Eredo town in Yewa South Local Government Area of the state.
Bright also bemoaned what he described as desperation of incumbent governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun to make his preferred candidate, Hon. Adekunle Akinlade of the Allied People’s Movement (APM) next governor of Ogunh state.
He said: “We are worried by the desperation of the state governor in his bid to install his preferred candidate as governor of Ogun state.
The President came to town and his entourage were pelted openly in broad daylight, no single arrest has been made. We, therefore, express serious doubt about the ability of the present police commissioner to bring to book of those responsible.
“If the President can be pelted in broad daylight and no arrest was made, how are you going to pick the killers of the police?
We are asking the IGP not only to transfer the police commissioner away from Ogun State for the period of this election, but to also ensure that those who killed that policeman are brought to book within the shortest period possible.”
“I am finally asking President Muhammadu Buhari who has said in his acceptance speech that he is going to strengthen the presence of security to also make sure that soldiers are dispatched to Ogun State.
“I am not saying they should be at polling booths, but they should be at strategic places to prevent any trouble makers because the intelligence report we have is that violence would be carried out in the presence of police officers who will not do anything.
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