Police, agitators' clash worrisome —SRG

THE Social Reform Group, SRG, has condemned Monday's outcome of a protest by Yoruba Nation agitators in Ojota, Lagos, reinstating the need for a state policing system, as a way of curbing excesses from federally controlled security agencies.

National Coordinator/Convener of the group, Dr. Charles Oludare, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kayode Fasua, condemned the use of gunshots to disperse peaceful protesters by policemen, as reported, saying such should be condemned by all peoples of good conscience. 

The statement reads: "The police standing between us and chaos should not be landing all of us in chaos.

"This is a sad reminder of the refusal of the Nigerian state to adopt the state police architecture for interior security, long advocated by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

"If we had operated Local/State Police in concert with other federal investigative and intelligence agencies, a peaceful protest would not have turned bloody, especially as prospective leaders of the protesters would have been legally profiled by the state police apparatus, whose men and officers are members of the community.

"In our community, despite our different cultures and ethnicity, we know each other, as is the case in every community in the Nigerian federation. The police will know the people living in that community, root out outside crisis actors and protect the peaceful protesters from the community, wherein they will mount the stump, address their gathering, and return home; without any incident.

"Our presidential system is ordinarily a carry-over of the American system, but local circumstances have given us a perverted version and we are all suffering for it.

“If the people feel empowered, that they have the right to a self- determination within the Nigerian state, these secessionist groups would have lost the locus of their regional agitations, hence they die a natural death. 

“We call on the Police Service Commission to adopt a culture of regular orientation courses for footmen in the police service, as many of them have given vent to the unfortunate culture of brute force, prevalent in the police attitude to the civil populace.”

Culled from Vanguard

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