Imphal: The additional superintendent of police, Kangpokpi and his team literally running away from the hooligans (the poppy planters) was a complete mockery of their arms and uniform, said Makhan (Makhen) Village Authority on Saturday.
The village authority served a four days ultimatum to the government to take up a fleet-footed action to destroy the poppy plants from Makhan Liangmai Naga land and arrest those Kuki poppy cartel groups and individuals who brandished their arms and weapons on the young volunteers and butchered the equipments.
“Failing to comply on the above given timeline will only trot things repulsive and abominable,” the village authority said.
In a press release issued on Saturday, the village authority said, any attempt to take advantage of the Makhan Village’s repute for clemency armored by pillared character shall be met with shielding and justifying retaliation.
A pervasive encroachment into our Makhan Liangmai Naga Land by Opium Poppy planters, i.e. some Kuki groups and individuals, has born a horror. On the November 20 (exactly at 11:30 am), after umpteen reiterations, coupled with a prior and official communication to the Superintendent of Police (SP) of Kangpokpi, the Makhan Village young and tendered volunteers trouping alongside Addl. SP Kangpokpi and his team of over 30 police personnel were manhandled right on the mission spot. The planters (some Kuki groups) of Papaver somniferum, commonly known as poppy, wielding guns and weapons, rushed devilishly to the volunteers and the police team and than, mauling the equipments and hardwares brought to cut off the poppy plants, and thereby incapacitating the mission, the village authority said.
The young Makhan Village volunteers had to retreat traumatized by the gun brandishing by the poppy planters. They were on this mission, apart from the SP Kangpokpi proposal because of two reasons: To Wide the Addl. SP Kangpokpi and his team on the difficult, unfamiliar terrain, and to show solidarity to the Manipur Govemment’s Mission on “War on Drugs”, it added.
This subversion of the authority of the Manipur state police is a corrupted depravity meted out not only to the government but to the universal fight on drags and their menace, it said.
The Addl. SP Kangpokpi and his team literally running array from the hooligans, i.e. the poppy planters, was a complete mockery of their arms and uniform. The volunteers were left flabbergasted on seeing the Police personnel displaying not a single restraint upon the violent poppy planters. This feral and theriomorphic manhandling must have been unprecedented in the Manipur Government’s fight and struggled against poppy cultivation and drugs, it added.
“The Makhan Village, initially, sought a peaceful disposition, believing that those Kuki groups and individuals would conform to the convention of cultured demeanor of transacting conversations and dialogues. We could have ended things by our competence and ability. But our belief in the Government’s machineries and agencies was stronger until this very moment. But this very act of transgression, trampling our faith in peace and harmony, by those Kuki groups and individuals shall not be tolerated.”
“Commuting and every form of transport, among many more, will be democratically tampered with on, the failure or inaction of the government. We give our word that we would honor the 4-day period allocation. We shall hope that this matter is being seriously attended to with speed, precision and efficiency.
Any aftermath or repercussion leaping out of this critical status quo shall be borne by the government,” the Makhan Village Authority said.
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