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 peacef...