Popular journalist, Dele Momodu, has urged the President, Muhammadu Buhari to appoint an Inspector General of
Police of South-Eastern extraction.
According to Momodu, the President must be responsive to the
dissatisfaction being voiced out by the Igbo people who claimed they were being
marginalised regarding certain national appointments.
The Chief Executive Officer, Ovation Media Group, spoke on Thursday on a Facebook Live Chat
The calls by interest groups for an Igbo IGP heightened this
week with the expiration of the tenure of Abubakar Adamu as the IGP having
reached the mandatory retirement age.
There were also similar demands last week when the President
appointed four new service chiefs –Major-General Leo Irabor, Chief of Defence
Staff (Delta State); Major-General Ibrahim Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff
(Kaduna State); Rear Admiral A.Z Gambo, Chief of Naval Staff (Kano State); and
Air-Vice Marshal I.O Amao, Chief of Air Staff (Osun State).
The Presidency had also said the appointment of service
chiefs was not by ethnicity but by their ability to secure lives and property
in the country.
However, speaking on Thursday, Momodu said the Buhari regime
must tap into the brilliance of the Igbo people in the fight against insecurity
in the country.
He said the regime must not make it look like the Igbo
people “committed eternal sins by fighting the civil war which ended 51 years
ago”.
Momodu said, “For me, I don’t care where you come from. So,
why should anyone tell me an Igbo man cannot be president, an Igbo man cannot
be the Chief of Defence Staff, the Chief of Army Staff or an Igbo man cannot be
the Inspector General of Police?
“I’m hearing now that the next Inspector General of Police
will be a northerner or may be they have even appointed him, I don’t know.
“How can the outgoing Inspector General of Police be a
northerner and then the incoming will be a northerner? I have nothing against
this but every Nigerian should be given a sense of belonging and people have
complained about this. A leader must be sensitive to the yearnings of his
people. That is why people are crying of marginalisation.”
The former presidential candidate noted that he has no
ulterior motive by speaking for the Igbo people.
“When I speak about the Igbo, it is not because I want to
contest an election or it is a political statement,” he said, adding that
Nigerians must learn to live together and respect each other.
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