A group from the South-East, under the aegis of ‘Conference of Igbo Professionals Worldwide’, has lamented the recent promotion of Police officers by the Police Service Commission (PSC), alleging that the zone was left out and not favourably treated as others.
It was also gathered that the group wrote an open letter addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari, where it alleged that, like in past recruitments, appointments, promotions and allocation of resources, the region has been denied its rightful place in the exercise carried out by the Commission.
The letter, which was signed by the group’s National President, Prof. Patrick Kalu and National secretary, Dr. Uche Mbaka, and titled: ‘Unfair treatment of Ndigbo and Urgent Need to right the wrongs by Mr. President’, the group appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to not only set up a panel with a view to unraveling circumstances leading to unfair treatment of Igbo race in the country but also review the recent promotions of the Police Commission.
Listing the areas the Igbos were being marginalised in the nation’s scheme of things, the group insisted that the President must take urgent steps to right the wrongs and called on him to address the principle of federal character in the distribution of public resources and appointive positions, especially security chiefs.
It also appealed to the National Assembly to immediately step in with a view to stopping these unfair treatments of Ndigbo in Nigeria.
