OPEN LETTER TO THE
PRESIDENT.
May 11, 2013
His Excellency,
Dr. Jonathan Ebele
Goodluck, GCFR.
President and
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces,
Federal Republic Of
Nigeria.
Your Excellency,
DISRUPTION OF DEMOCRACY AND
RULE OF LAW-ANARCHY LOOMS IN RIVERS STATE.
Your Excellency Sir, Since the 15th of April 2013
when an Abuja High Court upturned the election of a legitimate and duly elected
state Executive Committee of the PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP) led by Chief
G.U.AKE, all has not been well in Rivers State.
Your Excellency Sir, it is important to note that since this
development, Rivers State is witnessing, with unending shock and awe, the
creeping fashion of daylight illegality and disorder. As stakeholders in the
Nigeria democratic project and legitimate representatives of our people as well
as strong collaborators in your Excellency’s emergence as PRESIDENT, FEDERAL
REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA we seek to use this medium to inundate you of the developments,
their implications for Rivers State and Nigeria as a whole and pray your
presidential intervention.
In lieu of our oath of office as a legislature, let us reiterate
our unwavering commitment and loyalty to the constitution and people of the
Federal Republic Of Nigeria especially the people of Rivers State. We have
absolute, unshaken and unflinching confidence in you as PRESIDENT, FEDERAL
REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA and in the leadership of Rt. Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as
the Executive Governor of Rivers State. We shall defend and promote the
collective social contract vested in our mandate.
Your Excellency Sir, we are alarmed and disturbed by the planned
withdrawal of security personnel attached to various Rivers State government
establishments and officials, especially that of the Governor of Rivers State;
- Rt. Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the Rivers State House of Assembly, the
Ministries and the Local Government Councils. A test run has been executed with
the withdrawal of police from the Okirika Local government council by the State
Commissioner of Police Rivers State; - MR MBU JOSEPH MBU.
The situation in Rivers State has reached a fever-pitch, as there
are strong indications that the Governor; - Rt Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the
Legislators and prominent government officials have been mark for
assassination, following series of reported nocturnal meetings held in a
neighboring State and Abuja the Federal Capital Territory. The situation is
exacerbated with the planned release, from detention of 18 notable robbery and
kidnap kingpins currently in custody to carry out this planned mayhem on the
government officials and innocent citizens and residents of the state.
Mr. President Sir, we had on 30 April, 2013 alerted the people of
the wanton cunning collapse of security apparatus in the state, intended to
orchestrate breakdown of law and order, with the aim of bolstering a State of
Emergency, by a group of persons spearheaded by the Minister of State for
Education in your Executive council in connivance with the Police Commissioner
Mr. MBU JOSEPH MBU. On 3 May, 2013, first stage of their plan had commenced
with the sealing – off and besieging of the Obio/Akpor Local Government
council secretariat and the clamp down on the offices of the council by the Commissioner
of Police Rivers State;- Mr. MBU JOSEPH MBU, through the instrumentality of the
Divisional Police Officer, Rumuokoro police station, without any valid
instrument of law and without any security breach or semblance of same. On 6
May, 2013, the Rivers State House of Assembly complex which is directly
adjacent to the Police Headquarters on Moscow road witnessed a violent and
disruptive take over by 300 hundred hoodlums under the watchful eyes of the
Commissioner of Police Mr. MBU JOSEPH MBU.
Your Excellency Sir, we fear for the survival of our democratic
structures and the freedom to carry out our legitimate legislative duties have
been greatly hindered and interrupted. We make bold to say that we now live in
uncertain times, lives and properties can no longer be guaranteed in Rivers
State as a result of these chronicled events in a state that has just regained
its peaceful status from the recent past from been the hotbed of cultism and
kidnapping. Silence over this planned and calculated destabilization of
security apparatus in Rivers State is an “evil wind” that will blow no one any
good and is capable of contributing to fostering anarchy on the Nigeria
Stateline, especially, when those charged with upholding the law, ignore and
conspire to undermine it, unmindful of the implications.
Consequently Sir, we are left with no other option but to
RE-INSTATE our avowed resolve to call for the redeployment of the Commissioner
of Police; -Mr. MBU JOSEPH MBU. We equally call on Mr. President to intervene
in the ongoing imbroglio that is about destroying the very fabrics that hold
the society (Our State) together.
Once again, we reiterate our loyalty and commitment to you and the
Nigerian State.
God bless Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan
God bless the Federal
Republic of Nigeria
God bless Rivers State.
Rt. Hon. Otelemaba Dan
Amachree
Speaker, Rivers State House
of Assembly,
Port Harcourt.
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