Opinion by niranadedokun: Police and the value of Nigerian lives via thecableng
And in speaking about this issue, every segment of society is complicit. Life has become cheap, so people have become numb to bloodshed. When the guns of the ill-motivated, mostly inebriated men of the police do not fall on innocent citizens, money-mongering teenagers are slaughtering their friends for ritual purposes. Last week, a friend told me of a young man who had carnal knowledge of his mother because a herbalist told him this would fetch him money.
For example, police officers killed two people in the Ajah area of Lagos last month. Aside from arresting the shooters and engaging in unending investigations, the Lagos State Police Commissioner, Mr Abiodun Alabi, ordered the transfer of all men in that division to another division.
To put the matter in context, this matter concerns the murder of a couple, Kehinde and Bukola Fatinoye, shortly after they returned from church service early on January 1. Their assailant set their bodies on fire, also kidnapped their surviving son, Oreoluwa. The police later recovered the young man’s body in a river. The killers wiped out a generation.
The rot in institutions that are supposed to ensure the health of society is also evident here. How can a leading suspect accused of wiping out an entire generation escape and police hierarchy at Louis Edet House sits pretty with no visible consequences on command and divisional laxities beyond the usual tokenistic transfer of people?
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