A
Police officer attached to the Central Police Station, Nnewi in the Anambra
State Police Command reportedly slumped yesterday after following a directive
by the Inspector General of Police, transferring him to to Maiduguri, the
capital of Borno State.
The
officer, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) was said to have been
revived by doctors and other medical personnel at a private hospital in Nnewi
where he was rushed to after he slumped.
The
officer who is from the South-east was said to have less than a year left to
retire from the service.
ThisDay
reports he was among the 149 officers affected by the postings to different
parts of the country.
According
to some of the affected officers who pleaded anonymity, there was ethnic bias
in the transfers as most of those affected were said to be of southern
extraction, especially the Igbos who are protesting their transfer to the Boko
Haram prone states.
They
alleged that while as only two officers were transferred to Abia State, 12
officers were transferred to Bauchi; six to Borno; seven to Adamawa; six to
Jigawa; seven to Gombe; one to Imo, two to Akwa Ibom two; two to Cross-River;
two to Enugu two; two to Edo; three to Delta; and five to Ekiti, among others.
Reports
surfaced yesterday that Policemen in Anambra State command were in panic following ongoing
massive transfer of most of the officers to the Northern part of the
country.
Borno
State is the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency. There has been incessant
attacks by Boko Haram insurgents in the state. Many have been killed, villages
razed down and some others abducted.
The
terrorist
group abducted over 200 schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno state on April 14
and the girls are yet to be found.
Few
days back,from 15 to 25
people were reportedly killed in a fresh Boko Haram attack on a local market in
Daku village, Askira/Uba LGA, Borno State.
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