Blow Whistle Against Police Officers Who Violate Your Rights, Police Authorize Nigerians

Delta state commissioner of police, Ibrahim Zannah, has urged Nigerians to blow the whistle against any police officer who violates their rights and compels them to part with money contrary to the law.

This is following continuous calls that police on the highway are compelling commercial vehicle users, motorcycle and tricycle riders to part with money even when they have fulfilled all obligations of law required for highway users.

The commissioner who felt disturbed with the reports reaching his office from human rights groups intimating him of the action of the police on the highway, a development which is soiling the image of the police, gave the order in his office in Asaba on Wednesday.

Zanna, who spoke when a human rights group, Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, visited him, said Nigerians should blow the whistle without making noise about it, adding that he would pick up the case and handle the officer accordingly.

“My priority is to defend human rights. If I do anything, I’m derailing. If I do otherwise, my job is on the line. I have dismissed one police officer, I have transferred one DPO. I have grounded a whole unit because of actions that are inimical to the profession. I have been able to sanitise the system,” Zanna said.

The police commissioner said contrary to insinuations that the police are not well funded, he said police on the highway are well funded. Earlier, the group identified the rank and file of the Nigeria Police as the major challenge of the police force in the country.