Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria There has been a floodgate of whimsical and capricious presidential appointments into Nigeria’s federal pub...
Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria
There has been a floodgate of whimsical and capricious presidential
appointments into Nigeria’s federal public institutions; done without recourse
to the country’s democratic and cultural pluralism and moral ethics. It has
become so bad and unchecked that the country’s presidency goes about with
reckless abandon flooding the country’s hallowed public institutions with dark
forces and champions of barbarism as well as persons of unclean character and
integrity; in addition to those promoting radical religiosity, ethnicity and
butcheries. In the policing, security and defense establishments including
their oversights, competence, professionalism, geo-balancing, merit and moral
uprightness have disappeared paving ways for senior officers who masterminded
or still mastermind conduct atrocities including butchering of defenseless and
unarmed citizens and other forms of grave crimes against persons and properties
being recklessly rewarded with plum defense, policing and security posts or
appointments and postings.
Such recent presidential appointments are gravely contrary
to the country’s multicultural, religious and ethnic settings or compositions
and constitutional Sections 15 (5) (impeccability of character), 10 (adoption
of no state religion), 14 (3) (balanced allocation of federal office
appointments), 217 (3)(balanced composition of the officer corps and other
ranks of the armed forces of the Federation and 42 (freedom from discrimination
or disabilities). The worst of it all is the fact that the country’s presidency
does not give a hoot over public outcries while making such appointments. A
typical case in point was the recent appointment of several persons of minus
and compromised characters as ‘INEC National and State Resident Electoral
Commissioners’; to the extent that despite several public outcries, the Senate
went ahead and confirmed them on 6th Oct 2022 as controversially nominated by
the presidency.
The latest unannounced appointment of Retired IGP Solomon
Arase as the new Chairman of Police Service Commission is another typical case
in point. It must be generally pointed out the very idea of establishing the
Police Service Commission back in 2001 by the Obasanjo Presidency is long dead.
The original idea was to intellectualize and sanitize the Nigeria Police Force
including ensuring effective checks and balances, competence, professionalism,
ethno-religious balancing and ridding the Force of chronic corruption, corrupt
practices and police brutalities. The ‘spirit’ of PSC died when the country’s
federal political authorities began to flood and appoint incompetent, immoral
and corrupt retired IGPs as Chairs of PSC in quick succession.
Arase Rewarded With
PSC Chair Over 2015/2016 Massacre Of 250 Unarmed Easterners
Our gathered and
archived pieces of intelligence have revealed that a floodgate of former top
military and police officers that held sway between July 2015 and Dec 2022 are
making riotous inroads into Nigeria’s public institutions for appointment and
headship following their regional and international blacklisting over their
grisly murderous human rights records. Retired IGP Solomon Arase had gone into
oblivion since his retirement as Nigeria’s IGP. It is needless to reveal what
he might have gone through internationally or regionally following his dark
days as Nigeria’s IGP. As IGP, he supervised and vicariously masterminded
several mass killing of unarmed and defenseless Easterners including street
protesters, passersby, night vigil attendants, etc. His infamous “shoot at
sight order” will forever be unforgotten in the annals of the country and the
living and posthumous minds of living and dead Easterners. On 30th August 2015,
he ordered and no fewer than 30 unarmed protesters were killed in Port
Harcourt, Yenagoa, Uyo, Calabar, Enugu and Onitsha. On 2nd Dec 2015, he ordered
and 30 unarmed Easterners were killed at Onitsha Niger Bridgehead, Obodoukwu
Road, Owerri Road and other parts of Onitsha. On 29th Jan 2016, he ordered and
20 unarmed Easterners were killed in Aba. On 9th Feb 2016, he ordered and not
less than 30 unarmed Easterners were killed at Ngwa High School in Aba. On 29th
and 30th May 2016, he ordered and 140 unarmed Easterners were massacred in
Onitsha, Nkpor and Asaba. Intersociety hereby strongly condemns the appointment
of chief conduct atrocity perpetrator: Retired IGP Solomon Arase as Chairman of
the Police Service Commission and calls for his immediate resignation.
Signed: International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule
of Law (Intersociety)
Principal Officers: Emeka Umeagbalasi, Obianuju Igboeli
Esquire, Chidinma Udegbunam Esquire
Contacts: Mobile/WhatsApp Line: +23474090052, Email:
info@intersociety-ng.org
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