30 Lagos CDAs Indict DPO, Want Him Transferred

YUSUF MOHAMMED

The 30 Community Development Associations, CDAs, under New Oko-Oba in Lagos, have indicted the DPO, CSP Kingsley Anyanwu and demanded that he should be transferred to another Division over his conduct.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the CDAs have put up a petition to Lagos State Commissioner of Police and the Police Service Commission headquarters in Abuja over the lackadaisical attitude of CSP Anyanwu attached to New Oko Oba Police Division and demanded for his immediate transfer.

The petition, dated 12th May, 2020, which was made available to our correspondent, had the caption “Petition Against CSP Kingsley Anyanwu, the DPO of New Oko Oba Police Station in respect of the unprofessional conducts unbecoming of a the Police officer, nonchalant attitude and reckless disregard of community intelligence”.

The 30 CDAs said they had been subjected to untold pains by the DPO, hence they had to voice out their dissatisfaction. 

Some of the issues raised in the petition included attitude, approach and manner of communication to the community leaders, being rude, arrogant and disrespectful.

They alleged that he constantly Ignored and rebuffed sensitive security information from the leaders and residents of the communities; a reoccurrence which has led to increase in crimes and armed robberies in the neighborhood.

He was said not to always to pick or respond to distress calls from the Community.

They insisted that the unprofessional and unfriendly acts of the DPO has destroyed the long-existing cordial relationship of the station and the PCRC and Community Safety Partnership (CSP).

They said the l monthly meeting the PCRC and CDAs usually hold at the Station had stopped because of his uncultured and unprofessional conducts in the general administration of the station.

The petitioners also alleged that during the lockdown period, when criminals who tagged themselves ‘One Million Boys’ evaded the
communities, all calls to get protection from the DPO and the Station proved abortive due to his usual nonchalant attitude to security intelligence from the community leaders.

They added that the community leaders heard from reliable sources that he had been transferred on two occasions to Mushin and Ikotun Divisions but he refused to proceed on the said transfers which made the community leaders to begin to think that he has a secret mission he wants to execute.

The community leaders are imploring the Commissioner Of Police, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, to use his good office to intervene in the subject matter to ensure detailed investigations and transfer CSP Kingsley Anyanwu from their neighborhood in the interest of justice security and friendliness of the Nigeria Police Force with the community.