The Rivers State Police Command says it has busted and confiscated the Radio Biafra Transmitters belonging to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and domiciled in Iriebe Housing Estate in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state. The police operatives also arrested four suspected members of the proscribed group. The four arrested suspected members of […]
Controversy now trails the expulsion of three male students over the alleged gang rape of a female student by the Rivers State College of Health Science and Management Technology even as an advocacy group, the Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign, has called on the Rivers State Police Command to thoroughly investigate the […]
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has expressed concern at the inconclusiveness of the widely publicised overhaul of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Restoration Project (HYPREP), which, if concluded, would revitalise the Ogoni clean-up exercise.
A statement signed by the Secretary-General of MOSOP, Bari-ara Kpalap, indicated that “The progress of the project has been imprisoned by obvious inefficiency, lack of transparency and accountability, and related weaknesses.
“We recall that the Honourable Minister of Environment and Chairman of HYPREP’s Governing Council, Dr. Mahmood Abubakar, obtained Mr. President’s approval for the purpose since April hence we wonder why the restructuring exercise has remained inconclusive, many months thereafter.
The Chairman of the Niger Delta Dialogue Policy Advocacy Committee in Rivers State, Rear Admiral Nicolas Bakoo says 80 per cent of traditional rulers and stakeholders that should be a point of call on security issues do not stay in their communities, and urged the commissioner of police to withdrawn security agents attached to such individuals.
He made the call when he led members of the committee to pay a courtesy visit to the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mukan at the command’s headquarters in Port Harcourt.
He also emphasised that 80 per cent of local government chairmen do not reside in their localities but rather stay in Port Harcourt, adding that the officers have failed to provide security in their domains because they were hardly available to get needed information as the first point of contact in the local government areas.