By Charles Igbo
Not one to pull punches, the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has accused a serving Deputy Commissioner of Police, Adamu Abubakar of bribery.
He also accused the Police of sabotage.
Abubakar is the DCP Operations, Rivers State Command.
Governor Wike spoke in PH on Thursday while monitoring the level of the 24-hour lockdown of PH and Obiakpo LGAs which he ordered.
On personally apprehending defaulters, Wike thundered: “It is unfortunate to see the level of sabotage that we get from the Police, particularly, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Operations, Rivers State Command.
“The Deputy Commissioner of Police will sign approvals for companies because he wants to collect money. I am the Governor of this state, and there cannot be two Governors.”
The Governor dismissed as illegal, any approvals issued by the Police to anybody, outside his office.
Wike: “The Deputy Commissioner of Police has no powers to issue approvals when the state government has locked down the state. After the State Security Council met and agreed on the lockdown, the DCP went ahead to issue illegal letters to companies to operate. I have never seen that in my life.”
Such allegations fall squarely in the Governor’s territory.
He had, in 2019, accused a serving Army GOC, of engaging in oil bunkering because he was angling to be the next Chief of Army Staff.
The allegation was made publicly at the Government House, PH, before the GOC and other Military top brass, who had gone on a courtesy call on the Governor.
