Skip to main content

WIVES OF MOPOL ON SPECIAL DUTIES IN NIGER, BEG LAGOS CP TO RECALL THEIR HUSBANDS '


Recall our husbands on special Duty in Niger, wives of MOPOL tell Lagos CP

Wives, children of MOPOL on special duty protest in Lagos on Tuesday

Wives and children of MOPOL 22 officers have appealed to Lagos Commissioner of Police, Mr Abiodun Alabi, to recall their breadwinners posted to Niger State on Special Duty over one year ago.

The family members made the appeal during a protest at the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja on Tuesday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the women protested for several hours, calling for safe return of their husbands and fathers posted to Beri in Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State on special duty.

The women stormed the Lagos State Police Command, armed with various placards with inscriptions such as “CP Lagos State, please look into our matter to call MOPOL 22 commander to order; “CP please release our husband from Niger state after one year of special duty”.

Others were “MOPOL 22 Commander, bring our fathers; and “MOPOL 22 commander, bring our father please and Special duty of three months turning to one year special duty, Haba”.

According to the protesters, their husbands had overstayed their postings on Special Duty in Niger.

Spokesperson for the officers wives, Mrs Blessing Babagbemi, said their husbands had been on special duty since February 2021 till date and were yet to return home.

According to her, “such posting is usually for three months and at most four months.

She said: “One of the 31 MOPOLS sent to Beri has been killed and one other injured when bandits numbering about 900 stormed Beri village with motorbikes armed with sophisticated and superior weapons.

“The first attack was in May 31, 2021, and the second attack was on Jan. 16, 2022. The bandit packed all their property, uniforms, drugs, food and since then they have been abandoned without food, to survive on their own.

“After the first attack our husbands saved money and bought things, but the bandits came back again and took everything away,” she lamented.

She added that she and the other officers’ wives were barely managing to survive with some of their children out of school.

“Our children are missing their fathers, and besides we are humans. We need our husbands back home.

“We expected that our husbands will be back in December, but we did not see them.

“Last three weeks, we went to Oduduwa in Ikeja to see MOPOL 22 Commander, AC Bright Ibiye. We did not see him, they called the provost out for us, we told him, we are wives of policemen sent on special duty. We told him we want our husbands to be released.

“The provost promised that our husband will be back latest January ending or first week of February, the assurance gave us peace of mind, we left but on our way going back home, the provost said the commander wants to see us.

“We saw the commander and he tabled our issues promising that he was going to Abuja right away and will table our case and use our video clips he recorded as evidence.

“The commander then gave us 2 bags of rice and N10,000 which we shared. But up till now, we have not heard anything from them, hence, we are here to protest at the police command due to lack of feedback,” she said.

Reacting, Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, told NAN that he was not aware of the protest.

Ajisebutu, however, said there was no specific duration for policemen posted on special duty, adding that he would seek more information from Force PPRO Abuja on the matter

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Countries Accepting Nigerians Seeking Second Citizenship

  Countries Accepting Nigerians Seeking Second Citizenship Nigerians are able to access the following citizenship and immigration programs: The Caribbean Second Citizenship Programs, Caribbean nations like St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia and Grenada offer second citizenship through their respective Citizenship-by-Investment programs. A holder of one of these passports may travel visa free to about 135 countries, including all European Union countries, the UK, Russia, Turkey, Singapore and Hong Kong. Holding a citizenship from one of these respected countries may also make it easier to obtain residency status or study in other countries, and allows political security and makes it easier to open bank accounts in foreign jurisdictions. To qualify, an applicant needs to be of good reputation and make a government donation of at least $100,000 USD after approval of their citizenship application.  Approval of a Citizenship-by-Investment application normally takes about 3 months, and all de

AKURE OBASHIP: OBA AGUNSOYEBIOYINBO ADEMUAGUN ADESIDA 11 BROUGHT CLASS AND DIGNITY TO THE THRONE

      AKURE OBASHIP: OBA AGUNSOYEBIOYINBO ADEMUAGUN ADESIDA 11 BROUGHT CLASS AND DIGNITY TO THE THRONE                 By Sunday Ajibola There are men and there are men. Man gets to positions of power and authority and bring to bear their inner qualities. Position, as we have it here, is used to do all sorts of things; good and bad. But mostly and vexatiously, position blinds us as we use it to cheat and deny others their rights. Certain men understand that position is an opportunity to etch their names in gold and put such in the sand of time.   It is exactly fifty years today that the 42nd Deji of Akure, late Oba Agunsoyebioyinbo Ademuagun Adesida 11 joined his ancestors. That fateful day was Sunday and in the evening; darkness was just enveloping the city. It was the strange shouts of "opo ye o, opo ye o, opo ye o", that prompted me to rush out of our house at Oke aro. I saw people running helter, skelter. I did not bother about them. I was looking for the "electric

$100 MILLION STOLEN BY HACKERS IN CRYPTO HEIST

  Hackers steal nearly $100m in Japan crypto heist IMAGE SOURCE, Liquid has been hit by hackers, with almost $100m (£73m) estimated to have been stolen. Leading Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid has been hit by hackers, with almost $100m (£73m) estimated to have been stolen.  The company announced that some of its digital currency wallets have been "compromised." It is the second major theft of cryptocurrencies to take place in recent days.                 Last week, digital token platform Poly Network was at the centre of a $600m heist. "WE ARE SORRY TO ANNOUNCE THAT #LIQUIDGLOBAL WARM WALLETS WERE COMPROMISED, WE ARE MOVING ASSETS INTO THE COLD WALLET," THE COMPANY SAID ON TWITTER. So-called 'warm' or 'hot' digital wallets are usually based online and designed to allow users to access their cryptocurrencies more easily, while 'cold' wallets are offline and harder to access and therefore usually more secure.