As the Saturday, November 11 off-season elections draw near, the Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has vowed to redeploy the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Barde, over alleged partisanship.
The IG spoke days after the Nigerian Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress, the Labour Party, and Civil Society Organisations, called for Barde’s redeployment.
Egbetokun made this known Sunday night during a Channels Television programme “Peoples Town Hall On Election Security”.
Egbetokun said, “We are aware that there are allegations against the Commissioner of Police in Imo. Before the elections, we’re changing the CP. This is not to say the CP has been found guilty. But for neutrality sake, we are changing the Commissioner of Police in Imo State.”
Following the attack on the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, in Owerri, Imo State last Thursday, the organised labour had issued a five-day ultimatum for the redeployment of the state Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Barde.
Meanwhile as events unfold, the Labour Party had expressed its support for calls made for the immediate redeployment of the CP and other officials allegedly involved in the recent attack on Ajaero in the state.
Ajaero, was attacked and brutalised in Owerri, on Wednesday, while on visit to mobilised workers for a protest over their unpaid.
