Magodo: Southwest Governors Lambast IGP, Malami, Urge Sanwo-Olu to Deploy Amotekun
POLITICS DIGEST – The South-West Governors Forum has slammed the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba Alkali, over the interference and disrespect meted to Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, regarding the ongoing land case at Magodo Phase 2 Estate.
The governors expressed their displeasure in a statement by their Chairman and Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, titled, ‘Southwest Governors: Police Officer’s Disrespect To Sanwo-Olu An Unacceptable Intrusion.”
The statement added that the Lagos state government must deploy Amotekun Corps immediately.
According to the Forum, the disobedience of Sanwo-Olu’s order by a Chief Superintendent of Police, to vacate the Magodo Phase 2 Estate area was an unacceptable intrusion.
It was gathered in a video already in circulation that the CSP said that his team was in the estate in order to enforce the IGP’s orders and had not been directed to leave.
However, Akeredolu condemned the action while calling on the IGP to explain the reason for the intrusion.
The statement read, “We are in possession of a video which has gone viral on the social media concerning the disgraceful exchange between a police officer, a CSP, and the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babatunde Sanwo-Olu, the supposed Chief Security Officer of the State, at the Magodo Residential Estate.
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“The content of the video is very disconcerting, and this is being charitable. The utter disrespect, which underlines the response of the officer to the Governor establishes, beyond doubt, the impracticability of the current system, dubiously christened “Federalism”.
“An arrangement, which compels the Governor of a State to seek clarifications on security issues in his jurisdiction from totally extraneous bodies or persons, is a sure recipe for anarchy.
“We condemn, very strongly, this brazen assault on decency. We call on the IG to explain the justification for this intrusion.
“This is not acceptable. Any expectations of rapprochement between so-called federating units and federal security agencies are becoming forlorn, progressively, due to deliberate acts which mock our very avowal to ethics and professionalism.”
“We condemn, in very clear terms, the role of the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami SAN, in this act of gross moral turpitude.
“We, on our part, will continue to interrogate the current system, which treats elected representatives of the people as mere prefects, while appointed office holders ride roughshod over them as Lords of the Manor.
“If the purported Chief Security Officers of the States of the Federation require clearance from the office of the IG on matters within their areas of jurisdictions, only hypocrites will wonder why the current security crisis deepens and there appears to be no solution in the foreseeable future.
“We stand by our brother, the Governor of Lagos State. We advise him to deploy the Regional security outfit in the State to protect the lives and property of the people.
“We call on the President and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces to rein-in the excesses of certain elements bent on acting in a manner capable of eroding the bond of trust existing between the people and the Federal Government.”
