COVID-19: PDP asks IG to restore policemen to Rivers task force

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday asked the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to restore the police officers attached to the Rivers state Task Force on COVID-19 pandemic.

The party stressed that the withdrawal of the police from the task force amounts to politicizing the efforts to check the spread of COVID-19 in the country.

The PDP argued that the withdrawal of the police personnel will only lead to lawlessness as well as frustrate the genuine efforts of the Rivers state government to ensure compliance to health safety protocols put in place to check the spread of COVID-19 and safeguard the lives of Nigerians in the state.

It acknowledged the efforts of Governor Nyesom Wike, as well as those of other state governors elected on the platform of the PDP to flatten the curve in their respective states even without commensurate support from the federal government led by President Muhammadu Buhari.

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In a statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP said: “It is our opinion that the order to withdraw security personnel from the task force of Rivers state, or any other state for that matter, is counterproductive and against the overall interest of our nation in this fight against COVID-19.

“Our party therefore, urges the inspector general of police to reverse the directive and support efforts by Governor Wike to check the pandemic in Rivers state, particularly as the state is strategic to the economic stability of our nation.”