Some Christians in Taraba State have kicked against the alleged lopsided allocation of slots to the state by the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano State in the admission of cadets.
According to some of them, the list was based on religious sentiment.
Those admitted to the institution from Taraba include Ibrahim Farouk Sule, Maguru Haruna Mohammed, Emmanuel Hamilton, Garba Zulkifu Umar and Ugosor James.
Others are; Hassan H Mohammed, Danasabe J Tsokwa, Salisu Mohammed Usman, Umar Mohammed Misbau and Bello A Mohammed.
“The list was against us, Christians, The list does not reflect federal character at all,” a parent said.
Another parent and a senior police officer said, “Here is the list from Taraba. This list is bias. The commandant of the academy was once my DC in Kaduna, called Mallam Abduraman, he is a Muslim fanatic.
“Recently he transferred all Christian Directing staff from the academy.”
In August, SaharaReporters reported how some staff of the academy accused the commandant of victimising personnel based on their religious faith.
Ahmed was said to have illegally transferred some Christian personnel out of the institution and replaced them with Muslims.
“Furtherance to the achievement of the mission and vision of his Islamisation agenda, the Commandant, AIG Abdurrahman Ahmad, in a transfer signal dated 3rd August 2022 and signed by Christy Cookey (Mrs), the CP in charge of welfare transferred 21 personnel out of which, 16 are Christians and 5 Muslims.
“Note that the Muslims affected were tagged drunkards and were said to hardly practise Islam. He now replaced them with 14 personnel who are all Muslims, in a country where Federal Character Commission is supposed to always guide when posting personnel.
“This act clearly shows the handwriting on the wall as the mission to islamise the Academy is almost 90 percent completed if nothing is done to avert the doom that will soon occur in Nigeria.”
A Muslim staff member of the institution also kicked against the action of the commandant.
“This is wrong, even though I’m a Muslim, I’m against his action. Unfortunately when this plan was published, both the Nigeria Police Force and the Police Service Commission, that is the supervising body, were mute,” he said.
“Now it’s getting out of hand as the Commandant always claims the IGP (Inspector-General of Police) is his personal friend as such he is justified and covered to run the Academy as his spirit leads him.
“He has even requested the transfer of some of the senior officers who always oppose some of his decisions that are not in the interest of the Academy. He is too bossy and assumes so much power that no one dares comment on any decision.”
A civilian staff member also said that most of the affected personnel were trained abroad using public funds through the TETFUND (Tertiary Education Trust Fund) and were transferring knowledge to the cadets.
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