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By Kadiri Christopher 

The Police Service Commission, PSC, has demanded sanctions against the Commissioners of Police in Imo and Delta States over killing of some police officers.

The commission specifically said the killings in some states had become worrisome while calling on the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Kayode Egbetokun, to take another look at the capacity of Commissioners of Police, CPs in state commands.

The police reports that no fewer than six officers of the Nigeria Police Force were killed a few days ago in an ambush that happened in Ohoro Forest, Ughelli North Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta, while six other officers were declared missing in action.

In the same vein, two policemen attached to MOPOL 18, Owerri, Imo State, were on Saturday killed by gunmen suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and its affiliate, Eastern Security Network, ESN.

Late Insp Abe Olubunmi

The assailants were said to have thrown dynamite at the police patrol van which the deceased officers were in at the Okigwe area of the state.

Reacting to the incidents, Solomon Arase, the chairman of PSC, in a statement signed by the spokesman of the commission, Ikechukwu Ani said, sanctioning the two Commissioners of Police would serve as a deterrent for others who might be found wanting in future.

He condemned in strong terms, the new wave of killings of police officers on official duties, stressing that these officers are also Nigerians who deserve the support, encouragement and protection of the citizens.

Arase, also a retired IGP, stressed that there must be consequences for what he described as “avoidable incidents”, adding that any State CP found incompetent, derelict and operationally or tactically porous, should be redeployed to avoid these huge police casualties.

It will be recalled that there have been several agitations in form of a peaceful protest in Edo State, calling for justice and compensation for 20 slain policemen in Delta State where the Police authority claimed only six dead.