There Is No Police Commissioner In Bayelsa – Gov. Dickson

Seriake Dickson

Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, the Bayelsa State Governor has cried out that there is currently no Commissioner of Police(CP) in the Bayelsa, as the ones initially deployed to the state were constantly replaced and subsequently removed without replacement.

The Governor accused some opposition politicians resident in the state of taking the security of the state for granted,  by deceiving and misleading the Federal government into removing and replacing police commissioners in the state. The Governor said, sadly, that the federal government however listens to such politicians.

Governor Dickson made this disclosures in a statement while addressing newsment after an insightful and fact filled two hour lecture at the Institute for Security Studies, Abuja where the governor gave a lecture titled ‘Cultural Values, National Security and The Challenges of Contemporary Governance. Perspectives from Bayelsa State Experiences.’

The Governor said:

“In Bayelsa State, considering all our efforts at promoting security and stability, there are politicians of the other party resident in Abuja whose only claim to political leadership is the control and abuse of the security forces.

“They undermine state security and do so with impunity without any form of challenge. Rather, the Federal system listens to them, removes and replaces security personnel they are not comfortable with, promoting insecurity and instability in the state; a state we are labouring hard to bring under security CONTROL.”

“It will interest you to note that the true order of replacements and removal of Police commissioners in Bayelsa State within the past week is CP Don Awunah removed and replaced by CP Joseph Mukan CP Ahmed Bello to CP Ahmed Abdulraman CP Austin Iwar.”

“As it stands, Bayelsa State is currently without a Commissioner of Police because while it is true that Don Awunah, going by the police signal is on transfer to the headquarters, up till now, nobody has taken over from CP Don Awunah,” the Governor said.

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