Police declares Amaechi’s ADC a deserter

Police in Rivers on Monday in Port
Harcourt declared the ADC to Gov. Chibuike
Amaechi, ASP Seimeikumo Debewari, a deserter
from the force. Assistant Commissioner of Police, Administration,
Mr Augustine Sanomi, said in a statement that
Debewari had ceased to be the ADC to the
governor with immediate effect. Sanomi alleged that the officer ignored all lawful
directives to see the state commissioner of police
and the Inspector-General of Police since July 10
over his role in the fracas at the state House of
Assembly. He said the whereabouts of Debewari was
currently unknown to the police. “The commissioner of police acted on the Police
Act and the Regulation Cap of the Federation of
Nigeria 1990,’’ he said. Sanomi also said the Inspector-General of Police
had approved the desertion of Debewari from the
force. Mr Frank Mba, (CSP), Nigeria Police Public Relations
Officer says if a police officer leaves his duty post
for 21 consecutive days, without permission,
police act and regulation authorise the force to
declare the officer a deserter. Mba told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on
phone from Kano that “being a deserter is an
offence because the officer involved can be
arrested without a warrant of arrest’’. Mba also said that it was within the purview of a
state commissioner of police to declare an officer
a deserter in the force if he committed the
offence.