Police and incoherent COVID-19 war
It is not only the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 that can sometimes be inconsistent in their battle against the deadly but somewhat overrated coronavirus disease , the law enforcement agencies, particularly the police, are even less consistent. Late on Tuesday, the police suddenly countermanded the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari that allows essential services workers free movement in the discharge of their duties.
The president’s order was reasonable and unambiguous.
But given the enthusiasm with which the police defied or misinterpreted the president’s order on the free movement of essential services workers, barely three weeks after the first defiance, some analysts have suggested that there must be more to the second defiance than the excuse the police have given. The police had suggested that the presidential exemptions were abused, and that some of the so-called essential services workers were guilty of that abuse.
Second, the fiasco also raises apprehension about how the police are led.
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