The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, has criticized the Federal Government and the Police for the disgraceful way the home of elder statesman and former Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark, was raided.
He said the action showed lack of respect for our elders by the government.
Secondus, in a statement issued by his media aide, Ike Abonyi, said that “the shockingly unacceptable act shows the real character of this government and their attitude towards the nation’s senior citizens who should be accorded due respect for their contributions to the growth and development of the country.”
He said the operatives acted in line with the body language of the administration.
According to him, the invasion of Clark’s home had brought to the fore, “the rascality of this government in abusing human rights with the IG as a major culprit forgetting that they would not be in power forever.”
He stressed: “History is recording all the atrocities of this government and time would come when every actor would be made to answer for their roles in one way or the other.”
Secondus said the raid was the result of having a president who could allegedly declare that he would jail more people when he is not a court.
The PDP boss said that rather than make the operatives the scape goat, the Inspector General of Police should take responsibility as he would have jumped to take credit if they had found arms in Clark’s home.
“The IG is trying to play smart by sacrificing the operatives when he would have owned up and taken the credit if they had succeeded in their illicit mission.
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“What we are seeing is the image of an administration that has little or no regard for rule of law and human rights and operatives cash in on it at will.”
The national chairman of PDP said that further inquest should be made on the unfortunate incident to explain how they got the search warrant and who authorized the operation in the first place.
According to Secondus, the embarrassment meted out to Clark must have been designed because of his vocal stance in defence of his people of the Niger Delta region.
He then regretted that human rights abuses akin to what happened to Chief Clark were carried out under the administration on daily basis but hardly reported.
He warned that no evil would ever go unpunished.
