Dimapur, September 25 (MExN): The Western Sumi Hoho (WSH) on Sunday drew attention to “the recent social media campaign over the service extension accorded to T John Longkumer, IPS for the period of six months by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India,” stating that the “campaign against the said officer is clearly engineered and calibrated by some vested interest with ulterior motive to defame, condemn and damage the good name of the sitting DGP Nagaland and also to malign the government of being partial.”
“Under the laid down rules and procedure of AIS officers, an extension of service to an officer beyond retirement is very well within the preview of the permissible norm. There has been many such cases in the past and even now the present Union Home Secretary is on the fourth extension beyond his retirement,” the WSH stated in a press release on Sunday.
In the release, the WSH maintained that the matter has brought up due to “the fact that some scrupulous and vested interest individual is deliberately trying to defame and demean the image of a bonafide Naga officer.’
According to the WSH, “Nagaland has had the history of having so many DGPs from other cadres of both local and non local IPS officers and had served our state with distinction. Why single out the present DGP and accused the state government of appointing a DGP from other cadre?” it questioned.
“Isn’t it true that it is the state government prerogative of whom to choose as the DGP of a state irrespective of the cadre of an officer?” it added.
The WSH further went on to state that “few social media influencers, YouTubers and wannabe spokespersons of the masses are being fed with the confidential official document with the twisted and malafide intention to discredit the state government and also to serve one’s self interest in the hope to sit on the top chair of the police department.”
The Western Sumi Hoho takes this matter seriously as it is setting the bad precedence and even polarising the police department itself into different camps which can be dangerous in the maintenance of law and order, it maintained.
In this scenario, it appealed to the Chief Minister “to have an open probe and identify the person behind the scene creating all these social media drama thereby causing confusion and uncertainty in the overall administration and maintenance of law and order in the state.”
