Aggrieved Policemen Set To Go On Strike Over Transfer

Some police officers rose from an emergency meeting early yesterday threatening an indefinite strike over the transfer of about 60 senior officers, an exercise they consider “punitive,” as it involved the transfer of officers from the rank of Inspectors from the Imo State Police Command to the troubled areas far North. 

In their resolution sent to news men yesterday, the officers, who preferred not to be named, called on the Presidency, Senate Committee on Police Affairs and the Ministry of Police Affairs to thoroughly investigate the matter, accusing the Imo Police Commissioner, Mr. Muhammad Musa Katsina, of punitive and politically motivated transfer. 
According to them, about 12 senior police officers from the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) were also posted to guard motor parks while seven were posted to Okigwe as camp commandants.
Their grouse also included that the two IC Area Commander (Fire Service), who just returned from eye operation, was sent out “punitively” without the consent of the headquarters, adding: “This has never happened before in Nigeria. This must be addressed.”