Desperate politicians have resorted to self-help ahead of the 2011 general elections, by hiring and training thugs to use during the period.

A top police source in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, confided in P.M.NEWS today that intelligence gathered by its officers and men across the country indicate that thugs are already undergoing training ahead of the 2011 general elections.

According to the intelligence reports, the killer squads have already commenced training in 16 states of the federation in the area of weapons handling and shooting, under the watchful eyes of ex-military men.

P.M.NEWS gathered that states involved include: Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, Abia, Anambra, Edo, Taraba, Adamawa and Imo among others. The police source who declined to give further details, so as not to jeopardise police response and strategy, vowed that the police would map out strategies to thwart the sinister plot of the desperate politicians.

The revelation is coming on the heels of an alarm raised by a community leader in Taraba State that there is a massive stockpile of weapons in the southern part of the state. The community leader, Malam Yusuf Yakubu called on the Inspector-General of Police and the Security Committees of the National Assembly to immediately investigate the arms pile up.

Yakubu made the call in Wukari on Wednesday during an interactive session with journalists. He said those behind the weapons pile-up had ill motives against humanity. He said the alarm became necessary in view of the recent arrest of persons with large cache of weapons in Borno State that were alleged to be Taraba and Plateau State-bound.

Yakubu claimed that weapons were being stockpiled especially in Wukari and Takum, noting that this has been going on for years. He recalled the Kutep/Jukun and Jukun/Tiv ethnic and communal conflicts as examples of violent combustions during which different types of weapons were used.

He held that although people in Takum at a time agreed to surrender their weapons to the police, only a few did. According to him, the weapons surrendered were publicly destroyed at the Taraba Police Command headquarters in Jalingo, but that the people later resumed acquiring other weapons in large quantity.

According to him, the weapons that were brought out during the recent religious crisis in Wukari were part of such pile-up, adding that people of the area now live in perpetual fear. He blamed the elite for this sad development and urged the police to be more vigilant in order to prevent any ugly incident in the state.

When contacted for comments, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Alhaji Aliyu Musa confirmed that the police have received reports to that effect. Aliyu added that investigation into the matter was in progress and that the police was on top of the situation.

Investigations further revealed that politicians are not taking chances about their safety and their desire to win at all costs, considering the spate of assassinations that usually characterise election period in Nigeria. Only recently, an aspirant to the House of Representatives under Uriomhwon/Uhunwonde Federal Constituency in Edo State, Oghogho Omoregbe, aged 36, was assassinated at Idubor Avenue, 2nd Ugbor Road in Benin on the day he declared to contest the 2011 election.

He was a civil engineer and farmer.

Also in Ekiti State, Kunle Ayaga, a House of Assembly aspirant under the banner of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, was killed recently in what many believed was politically motivated. Another high profile murder involved Dipo Dina, an ACN governorship candidate in Ogun State in 2007.

Politicians are grooming and hiring armed thugs because of the loss of faith in the ability of security agencies to protect them and the motivation to rig election rather than lose and go to tribunals where they believe they can’t get justice. The politicians have even gone the extra mile in terms of protecting themselves against any attack by their opponents by acquiring bullet-proof vehicles.

A top American auto armouring company revealed recently that with the approach of the 2011 elections, more Nigerians have placed orders for heavily fortified antiballistic vehicles. Executive Vice President of Texas Armouring Corporation, Mr. Jason Forston was quoted as saying that the presidency, governors, politicians and other wealthy Nigerians are among those that have placed orders for bullet-proof SUVs.

He said the company has sent close to 800-900 armoured vehicles to Nigeria over the years, with more orders coming ahead of the 2011 polls, adding that about 30 percent of the auto armouring company’s market is in Nigeria.





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P.M.NEWS gathered that states involved include: Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, Abia, Anambra, Edo, Taraba, Adamawa and Imo among others. The police source who declined to give further details, so as not to jeopardise police response and strategy, vowed that the police would map out strategies to thwart the sinister plot of the desperate politicians.
http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/09/03/killer-squad-training-for-2011-%E2%80%94top-police-source/

Very funny

already on newspaper, what an irony!

Nigeria politicians are now havin their own army,


what kinda country is dis~

I wonder where that plane load of arms from last year went! . Nobody seems to know what's become of that cargo!

nigerian elections,

one of the greatest series ever,

it has every thing, action, subterfuge, violence, bribery, sex, lies, inneudoes, conjectures,

infact, we toooooo mussch!!!

desperate politicians !!!
the best thing to happen to this country is to make political office unattractive.that is when people would actually go there and do what is right but in situation when a senator earns more than the US president,aspirants would do everything to get there.will our votes count in 2011 ?

story

Hell.
Heck can one but, HELL.
Omo, if this is true then HELLLL!

naija is finished. greedy politicians.

For God sake what is all these? I can not understand why Nigeria is full of all these bastards people disguise as a politician. Does this mean the bastard in Nigeria has now grow to adulthood or can we say it is an adage that say any peaceful HOME is peaceful because the bastard in the house hasnt grow yet. How in heaven will some A -S-S-H O L E called politician are just in their own world just want to turn Nigeria to rubbles or a demonised state for God sake? Are these people truely a Nigeria or true son of their father? It is so pathetic indeed.

This is how warlords come into existence. When politicians create their own private armies, then violence is bound to occur.

Look at what happened in Somalia and DR Congo.

country do finish


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This is so pathetic !
What is the youth of this nation doing ?
Is this not time for revolution ?
We cant wait any longer, enough is enough !

This is good news, God is at work to save our great nation,they should kill themselves so our nation can be free.Then young and dynamic youth and God fearing people will take over.Since we can't fight them,Our God will fight for us.

Echidime:

This is good news, God is at work to save our great nation,they should kill themselves so our nation can be free.Then young and dynamic youth and God fearing people will take over.Since we can't fight them,Our God will fight for us.

GBAM !!

Ani lati gbadura gidi.

Echidime:

This is good news, God is at work to save our great nation,they should kill themselves so our nation can be free.Then young and dynamic youth and God fearing people will take over.Since we can't fight them,Our God will fight for us.

I wish it were that simple homes. IF that were to happen, the youth'll just continue where the crooks left off

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desperate politicians !!!
the best thing to happen to this country is to make political office unattractive.that is when people would actually go there and do what is right but in situation when a senator earns more than the US president,aspirants would do everything to get there.will our votes count in 2011 ?

As long as they keep being paid hefty sums, and acess to heftier bribes, political offices will never be unattractive

na 2day, naija police sabi mak mouth die. no be only killer squard, na murder squard

i laff wen ppl say Fashola is a good governor dis n dat  
is any one on Naira land aware of the set of thugs[b]" sponsored by Lagos state govt with tax payers money" called "TEAM LAGOS" [/b] u do not dare dem o they are bunch of blood thirsty  thugs working for Lagos state govt(AC) they are armed like crazy they  got all sorts of guns at their disposal they are rich, the police in Lagos know dem, the police cant arrest dem cuz they are well connected to the govt

PDP sef av their own too he is in Lagos Island(Eko)

All this never happened under military rule. Perhaps Naija is not ready for democrazy

I lost an relation who swore to police Lagos by the books.The idiots killed him 'cos he won't compromise.People training robbers can't police u!!

Hamid O:

na 2day, naija police sabi mak mouth die. no be only killer squard, na murder squard

, when in actual life, they are trainin a bunch of belly stuffd fellows the best way to balance their weight if Kata kata burst durin elections.