Emmanuel Onwubiko: Diminishing potency of Nigeria police
Few days back, I occupied my self with the usual habit of reading through all the editorials of at least the key national newspapers in Nigeria.
A clear irony that arose from that stark reality of the genesis of the current deadly terror attacks by boko Haram terrorists in the entire North East of Nigeria remains that the same police that created or fast-tracked the instigation of the deadly terror gangsterism by murdering the reverred founder of the outlawed Islamic group has been incapable of containing the uprising. Obviously, the Nigerian Police Force hasbitten much more that they can chew.
The dare-devil boko haram terrorists were so daring that they brought the battles to the home turf of the Nigerian police force headquarters Abuja even as the then serving Inspector General of Police nearly paid with his life. This year alone over ten dozen Nigerians have died whilst in the camps of kidnappers whilst the Nigerian Police set up to prevent or combat this sort of crimunality have been found wanting.
The principal goals of her visit she said were to examine situations of violations of the right to life by State and non-State actors; the Federal State security strategy and the responses at Federal and State level to allegations of arbitrary deprivation of life.
The UN envoy reports too that Nigeria has also experienced economic boom and considerable economic growth, particularly in the 1990s thanks to its oil resources. These are unassailable facts and much more than this extensively damaging indictment of the Police and the Nigerian government regarding widespread killings illegally lies the equally critical situation of the apparent collapse of the police into incompetencies, lawlessness, inefficiency of a criminal nature and the notorious fact that most police operatives are armed robbers on rampage with far reaching security implicarions for Nigeria.
Okedayo was kidnapped on Igara road in Akoko Edo area of Edo State while traveling to his hometown on Thursday. A Nigerian man was also shot dead in the attack on a holiday resort in northwestern Nigeria, 37 miles south of Kaduna, in which three other people were abducted late on Friday evening, local police and the British high commission said.
These incompetent police said thus: “Some suspected kidnappers armed with dangerous weapons gained entry into a recreational resort called Kajuru Castle, shooting sporadically and in the process shot dead two persons, including an expatriate lady, and took away three others,” a Kaduna state police spokesman said, without naming the other person killed.
In Kaduna Pastors have been targeted for kidnappings with over one hundred of them so far kidnapped. From Bayelsa state comes the shocking news that the mother of Nigeria’s former National Senior Football coach Sampson Siasia was kidnapped and has not been seen for over two months. The police in this as in many other cases are unable to resolve the thorny issue of brazen act of criminality by armed freelance kidnappers.
According to one of the victims, a don at the Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, Prof Emmanuel Biri, who escaped death by a hair’s breath, the kidnappers had a field day. His words: “About 20 percent of the bullets expended by the kidnappers were recovered inside the vehicles. Out of the seven passengers in the vehicle I boarded, two were kidnapped and two sustained serious gunshot injuries.
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